iOS 7 update traffic

Thu Sep 19 18:06:25 UTC 2013

It was released

Thanks
Darren
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> Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 10:58:24 -0700
> From: fergdawgster at mykolab.com
> To: nanog at nanog.org
> Subject: Re: iOS 7 update traffic
> 
> 
> 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...
> 
> Thanks in adavnce,
> 
> - ferg
> 
> On 9/19/2013 10:23 AM, Nick Olsen wrote:
> 
> > We also saw a huge spike in traffic. Still pretty high today as well.
> > We saw a ~60% above average hit yesterday, And we're at ~20-30% above
> > average today as well.
> > Being an android user, It didn't dawn on me until some of the IOS users in
> > the office started jumping up and down about IOS7
> > Nick Olsen
> > Network Operations (855) FLSPEED  x106
> >
> > ----------------------------------------
> > From: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner at cluebyfour.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 6:19 PM
> > To: "NANOG" <nanog at nanog.org>
> > Subject: Re: iOS 7 update traffic
> >
> > On Wed, 18 Sep 2013, Tassos Chatzithomaoglou wrote:
> >
> >> We also noticed an interesting spike (+ ~40%), mostly in akamai.
> >> The same happened on previous iOS too.
> >
> > I see it here, too.  At its peak, our traffic levels were roughly double
> > what we would see on a normal weekday.
> >
> > jms
> >
> >> Zachary McGibbon wrote on 18/9/2013 20:38:
> >>> So iOS 7 just came out, here's the spike in our graphs going to our ISP
> >>> here at McGill, anyone else noticing a big spike?
> >>>
> >>> [image: internet-sw1 - Traffic - Te0/7 - To Internet1-srp (IR Canet) -
> >>> TenGigabitEthernet0/7]
> >>>
> >>> Zachary McGibbon
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
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