Re: Here comes iOS 8...

[Andy Ringsmuth <andy () newslink com>]

> > > > ----------------------------------------
> > > >  From: "Zachary McGibbon" <zachary.mcgibbon+nanog () gmail com>
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2014 12:59 PM
> > > > To: "NANOG" <nanog () 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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