[165766] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: iOS 7 update traffic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Justin M. Streiner)
Thu Sep 19 17:10:30 2013
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 12:14:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner@cluebyfour.org>
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 :
The vast majority of the traffic I saw was served from the Akamai farm at
an upstream provider, so the pain that was felt 'on the backbone' was
mitigated somewhat by that.
jms