[165744] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: iOS 7 update traffic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Thu Sep 19 15:41:31 2013
In-Reply-To: <f5nypex78eynfdtwnegeisqm.1379614267565@email.android.com>
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 14:50:09 -0400
To: North American Operators' Group <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 14:11, Warren Bailey <wbailey@satelliteintelligencegroup=
.com> 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 l=
eads me to this question :
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> Why does apple feel it is okay to send every mobile device an update on a s=
ingle day?
That question makes no sense to me. Turn that around: Why would Apple think t=
hat is not OK?
> Never mind the fact that we are we ones on the last mile responsible for g=
etting it to their customers, 1gb per sub is pretty serious.. Why are they n=
ot caching at their head ends, dslams, etc?
Most providers are offered a cache for free (there is a minimum traffic volu=
me, but it is not even as large as Netflix's requirements). Every provider, r=
egardless of traffic, is offered peering for free.=20
What was the problem again?
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TTFN,
patrick
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
> Date: 09/19/2013 11:08 AM (GMT-08:00)
> To: Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster@mykolab.com>
> Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
> Subject: Re: iOS 7 update traffic
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> On Thu, 19 Sep 2013, Paul Ferguson wrote:
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>> 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...
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> The IOS7 upgrade is ~750 megabyte download for the phones/pods, and ~950
> megabytes for ipad. There are quite a few devices out there times these
> amounts to download...
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> --
> Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
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