Akamai today released their latest "State of the Internet Report," (registration annoyingly required) which covers a number of topics including broadband penetration, broadband speeds, security, and more. It's of particular interest to our readers, as the company gathers the data from clients that have hit their global content server network, offering at least a partial glimpse at useful broadband statistics. In a statement e-mailed to Broadband Reports, the company notes that Deleware leads the way in terms of the fastest state:Utah tops a list of the states with the highest number of connections above 25Mbps, thanks largely to the Utopia municipal fiber deployment. The District of Columbia, Alaska and Missouri rank as the top three slowest states in the country. Globally, the United States saw some growth in terms of the fastest overall nations, moving from thirty fifth to thirty third when ranked in terms of the percentage of connections above 2Mbps. In terms of connections above 5Mbps, Japan took the lead:In the first quarter of 2009, the company says that one-fifth of the Internet connections around the world were at speeds faster than 5 Mbps. Akamai proclaims they see approximately 1 billion users per day on their network, observing a 5 percent increase in the overall number of IP addresses hitting their network.

On the security front, the group notes that the United States and China were the two largest attack traffic sources, accounting for nearly 50% of observed malicious traffic. Akamai also notes that the top 10 ports saw approximately 90% of the observed attack traffic, with more two-thirds of the traffic likely related to the Conficker worm.