How could we even begin to wrap our heads around giving visual form to zillions of imperceptible ones and zeros that fly around the world every second?

Akamai Technologies claims that they handle 10 to 20% of the world’s Internet traffic. (Akamai is hired by other companies like Adobe, Apple and MySpace to host web graphics and streaming audio and video.) With access to data on about one-fifth of global network traffic, they’ve put together some interesting visualizations. These don’t pretend to be maps of the Internet, as others have done, but are still interesting ways to represent overall throughput, latency, and connection paths.