[165733] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: iOS 7 update traffic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Warren Bailey)
Thu Sep 19 14:56:49 2013
From: Warren Bailey <wbailey@satelliteintelligencegroup.com>
To: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 18:22:50 +0000
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1309192015100.32315@uplift.swm.pp.se>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Reply-To: Warren Bailey <wbailey@satelliteintelligencegroup.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I own a galaxy note 2..tmo ran an update that pushed to unique IMEI's seque=
ntially. That way, you do not..
1. Murder your last mike packet network, which is your bandwidth bottleneck=
.
2. Murder your ggsn/whateverpacketnodeyouwant closer to the core.
3. Anger your paying customers who would like to use packet data successful=
ly on an ios download day.
These people (Apple) represent themselves as smart guys, but their actions =
reflect otherwise. I bet this would be a larger deal to Nanog people if you=
r Internet stopped working as the result of 100% Linux adoption. That is ve=
ry close to what this is.. Tens of millions of people trying to update thei=
r 13 ios devices at the same time. Who owns a single ios device? A househol=
d could do 5-10gb worth of updates in a single day..
I personally do not own an ios device, and I see close to 3 gigs worth of u=
pdate traffic at my house. These things are everywhere, and this problem wi=
ll not stop.
Sent from my Mobile Device.
-------- Original message --------
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
Date: 09/19/2013 11:16 AM (GMT-08:00)
To: Warren Bailey <wbailey@satelliteintelligencegroup.com>
Cc: Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster@mykolab.com>,NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Subject: Re: iOS 7 update traffic
On Thu, 19 Sep 2013, Warren Bailey wrote:
> Why does apple feel it is okay to send every mobile device an update on a=
single day?
They don't, these are users who actively goes into the software upgrade
menu and pressing "upgrade".
I believe the nagging won't start for quite some time.
--
Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
