> On Dec 8, 2019, at 11:48 AM, Brandon Martin <lists.na...@monmotha.net> wrote:
>
> I guess what I'm getting at is that it sounds like, if you cannot source the
> content locally to the peering link, there's not likely to be an internal
> connection to the same site from somewhere else within the Akamai network to
> deliver that content and, instead, the target network should expect it to
> come in over the "public Internet" via some other connection. Is that
> accurate?
>
> Thanks for the clarifications.
<personal hat fully on>
I was hired at Akamai to design the network architecture for a global backbone.
This is proving to be an interesting challenge taking a diverse set of
products with various requirements and interconnecting them in a way that saves
costs and improves performance while my employers traffic continue to grow.
<personal hat off>
<work hat on>
Akamai is built to use the paths available to deliver traffic and meet our
customers and our business goals. Not all our sites are interconnected and
it’s extremely unlikely (read: possibly never, but who knows) you will see all
your traffic come over a direct link or cache. With any sufficiently complex
system, plus the acquisitions we have made over my short tenure it’s almost
impractical to integrate them all quickly or possibly at all.
I personally want to make sure that we deliver the traffic in a way that makes
sense, and a few people have seen those efforts but there’s also many things in
progress that are not yet complete or ready for public consumption. I believe
there’s room here to improve and each time we can turn a switch or dial a knob
to better serve our customers and the end-users that we are paid to serve,
everyone wins.
<work hat off>
Enterprises vs consumer ISPs have very different traffic profiles, and I think
the genesis of this thread was a direct result of a very consumer oriented
traffic profile that was unexpected. People have wondered why I would spend so
much time watching things like Apple rumor websites in the past, it’s because
that would lead to high traffic events. You go to where the data is. The same
can be said for other large download events or OTT launches. Everyone knows a
live event can be big but generally bound by the target audience size.
As software is attacked within minutes or hours after security patches are
released, I don’t find it surprising these days that systems automatically
download whatever they can the moment it’s released from gaming consoles to IoT
and server and OS patches.
If the traffic is causing you pain, I encourage you to reach out so we can look
at what might be improved.
- Jared
(I swear I’ll stop responding.. off to make lunch)
