iOS 7 update traffic

Thu Sep 19 18:50:09 UTC 2013

Composed on a virtual keyboard, please forgive typos. 

On Sep 19, 2013, at 14:11, 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?

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?

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TTFN,
patrick

> -------- 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...
> 
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> Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se
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