[101539] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Microsoft's Black Tuesday bandwidth impact?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Hennigan)
Wed Jan 9 17:04:00 2008
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 13:56:38 -0800
From: Jay Hennigan <jay@west.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <!&!AAAAAAAAAAAuAAAAAAAAAKTyXRN5/+lGvU59a+P7CFMBAN6gY+ZG84BMpVQcAbDh1IQAAAATbSgAABAAAAD3lvs27sAAQoLFUKme+xdpAQAAAAA=@iname.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Frank Bulk wrote:
> Every month I look at my upstream bandwidth graphs and I see no blip in the
> hours before 3 am on Microsoft's Black Tuesday. I would think that with the
> thousands of PCs out on our network downloading updates around that time
> that I would see *something*. I know every Black Tuesday I see my three
> PC's blinking a logon screen.
>
> Are MSFT's monthly updates really a non-event in regards to internet
> bandwidth?
Do you have Akamai servers locally on-net?
--
Jay Hennigan - CCIE #7880 - Network Engineering - jay@impulse.net
Impulse Internet Service - http://www.impulse.net/
Your local telephone and internet company - 805 884-6323 - WB6RDV
