[165737] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: iOS 7 update traffic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (nanog@namor.ca)
Thu Sep 19 15:11:37 2013
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 13:37:19 -0500 (CDT)
From: nanog@namor.ca
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <f5nypex78eynfdtwnegeisqm.1379614267565@email.android.com>
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On Thu, 19 Sep 2013, Warren Bailey wrote:
> I don't see how operators could tolerate this, honestly. I can't think
> of a single provider who does not oversubscribe their access platform...
> Which leads me to this question :
>
> Why does apple feel it is okay to send every mobile device an update on
> a single day?
>
> Never mind the fact that we are we ones on the last mile responsible for
> getting it to their customers, 1gb per sub is pretty serious.. Why are
> they not caching at their head ends, dslams, etc?
As far as I was aware, it was at least staggered throughout the day, so
there's some concession.
Also a reason to have some CDNs in any large deployment, I guess. I saw a
spike in our Akamai traffic, but only slight.
> Sent from my Mobile Device.
