iOS 7 update traffic

Thu Sep 19 16:14:22 UTC 2013

On Thu, 19 Sep 2013, Warren Bailey 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 :

The vast majority of the traffic I saw was served from the Akamai farm at 
an upstream provider, so the pain that was felt 'on the backbone' was 
mitigated somewhat by that.

jms