Some people and businesses are seeing slower upload and download times as the world adjusts to the COVID-19 pandemic and many people shift to remote work, putting more demand on the network. Content delivery network operator Akamai is making some…

Some people and businesses are seeing slower upload and download times as the world adjusts to the COVID-19 pandemic and many people shift to remote work, putting more demand on the network. Content delivery network operator Akamai is making some…
Newly launched, Comcast Business SecurityEdge aims to keep small business safe from cyber threats. The service, which was developed in partnership with Akamai, is designed to block access to compromised or malicious domains, filter Web content and provide insight into network security…
Comcast Business yesterday announced collaborations with cloud security firms Fortinet and Akamai designed to help business customers protect their networks from hackers. The business communications arm of the broadband and entertainment conglomerate and Fortinet are working together to develop advanced…
The average U.S. peak broadband speed was 70.8 Mbps in the third quarter of 2016 – an increase of 23% over the same period a year earlier, according to the latest Akamai “State of the Internet” report, released today. The…
Global OTT content revenues will increase from $47.7 billion in 2015 to $53.2 billion by year-end 2016, according to a new market research report from Future Market Insights. The roster of market leaders is chock full of big, high-tech brand…
One hundred million unique users tapped into NBC’s digital coverage for the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics. NBC, in partnership with Akamai, racked up some impressive Rio Olympics OTT video stats. The companies set industry milestones in terms of coverage and…
More than a third (35%) of U.S. broadband users experienced average connection speeds of 15 Mbps or higher in the first quarter of 2016, according to Akamai’s latest State of the Internet report. That’s an increase in the 15 Mbps…
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks continue to increase in number and frequency, as well as in size and sophistication, in 1Q’16, according to DDoS attack data from Akamai. The company thwarted more than 4,500 DDoS attacks in 1Q, an…
At a time when some data center operators are trying to one-up each other on reliability, it might seem surprising to learn that open standards organization Open-IX is moving in the opposite direction. The organization is working on edge data…
More and more U.S. broadband users are adopting higher speed connections, according to the latest Akamai State of the Internet report, released today and based on data from the fourth quarter of 2015. In particular, researchers found large increases in…
The average broadband connection speed in the U.S. was 11.7 Mbps for the second quarter of 2015, according to the latest Akamai State of the Internet Report. That’s a slight increase of 1% since first quarter and an increase of…
The U.S. average peak broadband speed in the fourth quarter of 2014 was 49.4 Mbps according to the latest Akamai State of the Internet report. The U.S. average connection speed was 11.1 Mbps for that period, Akamai said. While average…
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