IOS new versions and network load

Wed Sep 20 12:38:20 UTC 2017

I've never quite understood CDNs and why more of them aren't more nimble. For most of them when we talk to them they're talking a full rack or more of deployment. Why haven't they all figured out how to do a single box or even a handful of boxes? 

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Mike Hammett 
Intelligent Computing Solutions 
http://www.ics-il.com 

Midwest-IX 
http://www.midwest-ix.com 

----- Original Message -----

From: "Mike Hammett" <nanog at ics-il.net> 
Cc: Nanog at nanog.org 
Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 7:36:19 AM 
Subject: Re: IOS new versions and network load 

Apple seems to be quite behind on their node roll out. They were talking about our Indianapolis IX getting one this year, but now we're at least another year away from one. 

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Mike Hammett 
Intelligent Computing Solutions 
http://www.ics-il.com 

Midwest-IX 
http://www.midwest-ix.com 

----- Original Message -----

From: "Jared Mauch" <jared at puck.nether.net> 
To: "Aaron Gould" <aaron1 at gvtc.com> 
Cc: "Marco Slater" <marco at marcoslater.com>, "Paul Stewart" <paul at paulstewart.org>, "Mike Hammett" <nanog at ics-il.net>, "Luke Guillory" <lguillory at reservetele.com>, Nanog at nanog.org 
Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 5:41:24 AM 
Subject: Re: IOS new versions and network load 

> On Sep 19, 2017, at 10:58 PM, Aaron Gould <aaron1 at gvtc.com> wrote: 
> 
> I'm pretty sure I've seen huge hits on my Akamai caches during IOS release nights. 

I remember seeing this years ago. What I saw yesterday from my own home was IPv6 traffic to the Apple CDN nodes in Chicago. 

> But this is news to me about Apple having caches. Are Apple caches like Akamai, Netflix, Google, etc? 

If you are at an IX or have traffic volumes, I would check this: 

https://www.peeringdb.com/asn/714 

- Jared 