Re: iOS 7 update traffic

["Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick () ianai net>]

Composed on a virtual keyboard, please forgive typos. 

On Sep 19, 2013, at 14:11, Warren Bailey <wbailey () satelliteintelligencegroup com> 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 :
>
> Why does apple feel it is okay to send every mobile device an update on a single day?

That question makes no sense to me. Turn that around: Why would Apple think that is not OK?


> Never mind the fact that we are we ones on the last mile responsible for getting it to their customers, 1gb per sub 
> is pretty serious.. Why are they not caching at their head ends, dslams, etc?

Most providers are offered a cache for free (there is a minimum traffic volume, but it is not even as large as 
Netflix's requirements). Every provider, regardless of traffic, is offered peering for free. 

What was the problem again?

-- 
TTFN,
patrick


> -------- Original message --------
> From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike () swm pp se>
> Date: 09/19/2013 11:08 AM (GMT-08:00)
> To: Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster () mykolab com>
> Cc: NANOG <nanog () nanog org>
> Subject: Re: iOS 7 update traffic
>
>
> On Thu, 19 Sep 2013, Paul Ferguson wrote:
>
> > Can someone please explain to a non-Apple person what the hell happened
> > that started generating so much traffic? Perhaps I missed it in this
> > thread, but I would be curious to know what iOS 7 implemented that
> > caused this...
>
> The IOS7 upgrade is ~750 megabyte download for the phones/pods, and ~950
> megabytes for ipad. There are quite a few devices out there times these
> amounts to download...
>
> --
> Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike () swm pp se