[165738] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: iOS 7 update traffic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike A)
Thu Sep 19 15:15:28 2013
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 13:41:05 -0500
From: Mike A <mikea@mikea.ath.cx>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <f5nypex78eynfdtwnegeisqm.1379614267565@email.android.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 06:11:11PM +0000, 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?
They didn't make it available to everyone on the same day. My iphone 5 didn't
see it until today; I looked yesterday, and it wasn't available for that
device. I'm busily contributing to the network stress now.
--
Mike Andrews, W5EGO
mikea@mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin
