[195925] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IOS new versions and network load
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Hammett)
Sat Sep 23 03:17:48 2017
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Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 07:38:20 -0500 (CDT)
From: Mike Hammett <nanog@ics-il.net>
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I've never quite understood CDNs and why more of them aren't more nimble. For most of them when we talk to them they're talking a full rack or more of deployment. Why haven't they all figured out how to do a single box or even a handful of boxes?
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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
http://www.ics-il.com
Midwest-IX
http://www.midwest-ix.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Hammett" <nanog@ics-il.net>
Cc: Nanog@nanog.org
Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 7:36:19 AM
Subject: Re: IOS new versions and network load
Apple seems to be quite behind on their node roll out. They were talking about our Indianapolis IX getting one this year, but now we're at least another year away from one.
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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
http://www.ics-il.com
Midwest-IX
http://www.midwest-ix.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jared Mauch" <jared@puck.nether.net>
To: "Aaron Gould" <aaron1@gvtc.com>
Cc: "Marco Slater" <marco@marcoslater.com>, "Paul Stewart" <paul@paulstewart.org>, "Mike Hammett" <nanog@ics-il.net>, "Luke Guillory" <lguillory@reservetele.com>, Nanog@nanog.org
Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 5:41:24 AM
Subject: Re: IOS new versions and network load
> On Sep 19, 2017, at 10:58 PM, Aaron Gould <aaron1@gvtc.com> wrote:
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> I'm pretty sure I've seen huge hits on my Akamai caches during IOS release nights.
I remember seeing this years ago. What I saw yesterday from my own home was IPv6 traffic to the Apple CDN nodes in Chicago.
> But this is news to me about Apple having caches. Are Apple caches like Akamai, Netflix, Google, etc?
If you are at an IX or have traffic volumes, I would check this:
https://www.peeringdb.com/asn/714
- Jared
