Asia is the fastest-growing city in the world, says the report

Beijing time April 21 morning news, according to foreign media reports, Internet content distribution optimization manufacturers Akamai reported in Tuesday, in the world's fastest speed of the 100 cities, Asian cities accounted for 62. The three fastest-growing cities in the world are Berkeley, Stanford and Chapel Hill, although the three cities are in the United States, but Akamai says 48 of the top 100 fastest-growing cities in the world are in Japan and Asia occupies 100 of the top 62 rankings. By analyzing the average speed, Akamai found that 31 states in the U.S. increased their speed in the fourth quarter of last year, with the fastest-growing South Dakota State speed up to 4.5Mbps, an increase of 18%. In the U.S., Colombia and 19 other states, the speed of the decline, the most serious decline is Virginia State, the decline of 13%.　　Akamai believes this is partly because the state has increased its share of Internet access through mobile phones, pulling down the average speed. Akamai said: "We are ranked every quarter according to the average speed of the city, we monitor the speed of 465 million independent IP, and this number is increasing."　　The company said the US and China accounted for nearly 40% of the IP addresses being monitored. Akamai said that the top three areas ranked by the highest speed were South Korea, Hong Kong and Japan, with a maximum speed of more than 7.5Mbps. Globally, the average net speed of 96 countries and regions is lower than 1Mbps, the number of 103 countries and regions in the last quarter has decreased, indicating that broadband has been further popularized. Akamai points out that only 3 countries have an average speed of less than 100Kbps. (Sean)