[145688] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Apple updates - Akamai effect
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (nanog@namor.ca)
Sat Oct 15 20:07:57 2011
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 19:06:12 -0500
From: J <nanog@namor.ca>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <aavcrqou6t.fsf@macsl.switch.ch>
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Simon Leinen wrote:
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> Guess it was a good idea to upgrade that Akamai cluster's uplink to
> 10GE, even though 2*GE (or was it 4*GE) looked sufficient at the time.
> Remember folks, "overprovisioning" is a misnomer, it should be called
> "provisioning for robustness and growth".
If I may change the thrust a bit, this is of interest to me.
Just because we're in the midst of similar - changing from 2xGE to 10GE and
increasing the number of Akamai nodes.
Anyone have similar stats on that sort of conversion, and what to expect?
From what I can tell, there's a fair bit of local, off-net traffic coming to
ours, so I'm curious what the turn-up may look like.
This may be just idle curiosity, but what the hey.
