[145693] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Apple updates - Akamai effect
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Sat Oct 15 20:46:14 2011
In-Reply-To: <4E9A1FF4.40103@namor.ca>
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 20:43:20 -0400
To: North American Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Oct 15, 2011, at 20:06, J <nanog@namor.ca> wrote:
> Simon Leinen wrote:
>> 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".
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> If I may change the thrust a bit, this is of interest to me.
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> Just because we're in the midst of similar - changing from 2xGE to 10GE an=
d
> increasing the number of Akamai nodes.
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> Anyone have similar stats on that sort of conversion, and what to expect?
> =46rom what I can tell, there's a fair bit of local, off-net traffic comin=
g to
> ours, so I'm curious what the turn-up may look like.
It sounds like you have what Akamai calls an "AANP" deployment. In general,=
that should not serve users outside your network. There are reasons it can=
, and you should talk to Akamai about it if you think it is.
If you have questions about an on-net node, feel free to email Akamai's Netw=
ork Support group, NetSupport@akamai.com. They are only M-F, but they can a=
nswer any questions you have.
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TTFN,
patrick
