[165717] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: iOS 7 update traffic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Thu Sep 19 13:59:18 2013
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 10:58:24 -0700
From: Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster@mykolab.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <523B3B15.5090603@people.ops-trust.net>
Reply-To: fergdawgster@mykolab.com
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Can someone please explain to a non-Apple person what the hell happened
that started generating so much traffic? Perhaps I missed it in this
thread, but I would be curious to know what iOS 7 implemented that
caused this...
Thanks in adavnce,
- ferg
On 9/19/2013 10:23 AM, Nick Olsen wrote:
> We also saw a huge spike in traffic. Still pretty high today as well.
> We saw a ~60% above average hit yesterday, And we're at ~20-30% above
> average today as well.
> Being an android user, It didn't dawn on me until some of the IOS users in
> the office started jumping up and down about IOS7
> Nick Olsen
> Network Operations (855) FLSPEED x106
>
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> From: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner@cluebyfour.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 6:19 PM
> To: "NANOG" <nanog@nanog.org>
> Subject: Re: iOS 7 update traffic
>
> On Wed, 18 Sep 2013, Tassos Chatzithomaoglou wrote:
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>> We also noticed an interesting spike (+ ~40%), mostly in akamai.
>> The same happened on previous iOS too.
>
> I see it here, too. At its peak, our traffic levels were roughly double
> what we would see on a normal weekday.
>
> jms
>
>> Zachary McGibbon wrote on 18/9/2013 20:38:
>>> So iOS 7 just came out, here's the spike in our graphs going to our ISP
>>> here at McGill, anyone else noticing a big spike?
>>>
>>> [image: internet-sw1 - Traffic - Te0/7 - To Internet1-srp (IR Canet) -
>>> TenGigabitEthernet0/7]
>>>
>>> Zachary McGibbon
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