Elephant in the room - Akamai

Sat Dec 7 22:34:06 UTC 2019

Have there been any fundamental change in their network architecture that might explain pulling these caches?

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From: NANOG <nanog-bounces at nanog.org> on behalf of Shawn L via NANOG <nanog at nanog.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 7, 2019 8:20 PM
To: Jared Mauch <jared at puck.nether.net>
Cc: nanog at nanog.org <nanog at nanog.org>
Subject: Re: Elephant in the room - Akamai

Same -- we had an Akamai cache for 15+ years.  Then we were notified that it was done and were sent boxes to pack our stuff up and send it back.

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From: "Jared Mauch" <jared at puck.nether.net>
Sent: Saturday, December 7, 2019 2:05pm
To: "Seth Mattinen" <sethm at rollernet.us>
Cc: nanog at nanog.org
Subject: Re: Elephant in the room - Akamai

> On Dec 7, 2019, at 12:06 PM, Seth Mattinen <sethm at rollernet.us> wrote:
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> On 12/6/19 06:46, Fawcett, Nick via NANOG wrote:
>> We had three onsite Akamai caches a few months ago. They called us up and said they are removing that service and sent us boxes to pack up the hardware and ship back. We’ve had quite the increase in DIA traffic as a result of it.
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> Same here, removed last month, and no more Akamai traffic over peering since.

This last part doesn’t sound right.

Can you send me details in private?

Thanks,

- Jared
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