Re: iOS 7 update traffic

[Warren Bailey <wbailey () satelliteintelligencegroup com>]

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?

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?


Sent from my Mobile Device.


-------- 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...

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike () swm pp se