Here comes iOS 8...

Fri Sep 19 14:33:02 UTC 2014

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>>>>  From: "Zachary McGibbon" <zachary.mcgibbon+nanog at gmail.com>
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2014 12:59 PM
>>>> To: "NANOG" <nanog at nanog.org>
>>>> Subject: Here comes iOS 8...
>>>> So Apple is about to release iOS 8... Have you done anything special to
>>>> your network setup to accommodate the traffic flood ie traffic shaping
>>>> rules, cache servers, etc?
>>>> 
>>>> I heard that Apple Caching servers won't work with this update, so I'm
>>>> guessing it will be pushed through Akamai servers as is usually is.
>>>> 
>>>> - Zachary

Interestingly enough, it seems Apple primarily used it's own, new, CDN for the iOS 8 release:

http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/09/18/apple-chose-to-handle-ios-8-rollout-with-own-content-delivery-network

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