iOS 7 update traffic

Harry Hoffman hhoffman at ip-solutions.net
Thu Sep 19 18:18:23 UTC 2013


They implemented fanboy-lust which :-)

Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster at mykolab.com> 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...
>
>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
>>
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>> 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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>Paul Ferguson
>Vice President, Threat Intelligence
>Internet Identity, Tacoma, Washington  USA
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