Apple updates - Effect on network

Andrew Gallo akg1330 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 13 12:42:03 UTC 2011


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On 10/12/2011 5:41 PM, Chad Burnham wrote:
> HI,
>
> Our GigaPOP (Front Range GigaPOP) and our own Akamai cache server's
traffic
> jumped significantly today. The theory (no data) is the Apple updates
> released today.
>
> Chad Burnham
> University of Denver
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Zachary McGibbon [mailto:zachary.mcgibbon+nanog at gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 2:10 PM
> To: nanog at nanog.org
> Subject: Apple updates - Affect on network
>
> With all of Apple's updates today (MacOS, iOS, Apps, etc) we saw a big
> increase on one of our links to our ISP at 1pm Eastern.
>
> Did anyone else notice significant traffic jumps on their networks?
>
> [image: image.png]
>
 
Yesterday, around 1PM ET, we saw a nearly 40% increase in inbound
traffic, almost all from Akamai.  It continued until around 2AM this
morning, though, at one point, the traffic switched providers. 
Interestingly enough, we are peered directly with Akamai at Equnix-
Ashburn, and at no point did this traffic use that link.
 
Last time we saw such discrete large inbound flows was the World Cup.
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