iOS 7 update traffic

Thu Sep 19 18:48:49 UTC 2013

Why should Apple care if providers have oversubscribed lines or not?  As
far as I know, Akamai delivers most of the data anyway, so it is not
coming all from Apple.  I don't know for sure, but I doubt they have
enough bandwidth themselves to saturate so many links concurrently.  Apple
also does not push the updates, it is pulled to the device when the users
tell the device to retrieve it.  So blame your users, not Apple.  It is
also my understanding that any updates they do push are staged so they all
don't go out the same time.

On 9/19/13 2:11 PM, "Warren Bailey"
<wbailey at 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?
>
>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?
>
>
>Sent from my Mobile Device.
>
>
>-------- Original message --------
>From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike at swm.pp.se>
>Date: 09/19/2013 11:08 AM (GMT-08:00)
>To: Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster at mykolab.com>
>Cc: NANOG <nanog at 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: swmike at swm.pp.se
>