iOS 7 update traffic

Mon Sep 23 12:14:08 UTC 2013

One of the earlier posts seems to suggest that if iOS updates were cached
on the ISPs CDN server then the traffic would have been manageable since
everybody would only contact the local sever to get the image. Is this
assumption correct?

Do most big service providers maintain their own content servers? Is this
what we're heading to these days?

Glen

On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Neil Harris <neil at tonal.clara.co.uk> wrote:

> On 23/09/13 10:32, John Smith wrote:
>
>> Picked this off www.jaluri.com (network and Cisco blog aggregator):
>>
>> http://routingfreak.wordpress.**com/2013/09/23/ios7s-impact-**
>> on-networks-worldwide/<http://routingfreak.wordpress.com/2013/09/23/ios7s-impact-on-networks-worldwide/>
>>
>> The consensus seems to be for providers to install CDN servers, if they
>> arent able to cope up with an occasional OS update traffic.
>>
>> http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?**id=391B4B64-F693-41B7-**6BBAC6D7017C3B8A<http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=391B4B64-F693-41B7-6BBAC6D7017C3B8A>
>>
>> John
>>
>>
> Perhaps Apple, Microsoft etc. should consider using Bittorrent as a way of
> distributing their updates? If ISPs were to run their own Bittorrent
> servers (with appropriate restrictions, see below), this would then create
> an instant CDN, with no need to define any other protocols or pay any third
> parties.
>
> The hard bit would be to create a way for Apple etc. to be able to
> authoritatively say "we are the content owners, and are happy for you to
> replicate this locally": but perhaps this could be as simple serving the
> initial seed from an HTTPS server with a valid certificate? It would then
> be trivial to create a whitelist of the domains of the top 10 or so
> distributors of patches, and then everything would work automatically from
> then on.
>
> -- N.
>
>
>