Composed on a virtual keyboard, please forgive typos. On Sep 19, 2013, at 14:11, Warren Bailey <wbai...@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 > leads me to this question : > > Why does apple feel it is okay to send every mobile device an update on a > single day? That question makes no sense to me. Turn that around: Why would Apple think that is not OK? > 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? Most providers are offered a cache for free (there is a minimum traffic volume, but it is not even as large as Netflix's requirements). Every provider, regardless of traffic, is offered peering for free. What was the problem again? -- TTFN, patrick > -------- Original message -------- > From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swm...@swm.pp.se> > Date: 09/19/2013 11:08 AM (GMT-08:00) > To: Paul Ferguson <fergdawgs...@mykolab.com> > Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> > Subject: Re: iOS 7 update traffic > > > On Thu, 19 Sep 2013, Paul Ferguson wrote: > >> >> 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... > > 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... > > -- > Mikael Abrahamsson email: swm...@swm.pp.se >
