Internet Map of the World

It seems the world is moving away from a U.S. centric web…

For past two years, I have been pointing towards a subtle but important shift that has started to take place – the globalization of the Internet. Thanks to a broadband boom in Europe, Asia and in new emerging economies such as Brazil and China, we are seeing the Internet traffic shift away from its historic US centricity. The trend was confirmed by our friends at Telegeography who have put together a clever Internet Map of the world.They point out that in 1999, 91 percent of Asia and 70 percent of African Internet capacity connected to the US. In 2008, only 54 percent of Asian countries’ international Internet capacity connects to the US, while only 6 percent of African countries bandwidth connects to the US, as Europe has become more of an Internet hub for Africa.

The study also found that international Internet bandwidth rose 62 percent over 2007 as backbone operators continued to upgrade networks to meet rising demand. It all goes back to this.

via GigaOM