[165723] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: iOS 7 update traffic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Thu Sep 19 14:24:15 2013
In-Reply-To: <523B3B40.5070309@mykolab.com>
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 14:09:57 -0400
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Composed on a virtual keyboard, please forgive typos.=20
On Sep 19, 2013, at 13:58, Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster@mykolab.com> wrote:
> 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...
BING for "ios adoption rate" (one estimate is 29% in 16 hours), multiply by #=
of iThings, multiply by size of iOS, divide by # of seconds in estimate.=20=
As for why so many users upgrade so fast, that's a harder question. It could=
be iThing users are more willing to believe the fruit company's advertising=
(hype) . Could be that the device tells them to upgrade so they do. It is a=
lso at least partially due to the fact all iThings are upgradable (within a c=
ertain age horizon).
Hope that gives you something to chew on, even if it doesn't answer the ques=
tion.=20
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TTFN,
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> On 9/19/2013 10:23 AM, Nick Olsen wrote:
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>> 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 i=
n
>> 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
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>> 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.
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>> I see it here, too. At its peak, our traffic levels were roughly double
>> what we would see on a normal weekday.
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>> jms
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>>> 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?
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>>>> [image: internet-sw1 - Traffic - Te0/7 - To Internet1-srp (IR Canet) -
>>>> TenGigabitEthernet0/7]
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>>>> Zachary McGibbon
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> Paul Ferguson
> Vice President, Threat Intelligence
> Internet Identity, Tacoma, Washington USA
> IID --> "Connect and Collaborate" --> www.internetidentity.com
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