Re: Elephant in the room - Akamai

[Chris Adams <cma () cmadams net>]

Once upon a time, Fawcett, Nick <nfawcett () corp mtco com> said:
> 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.

Same here.  We'd had Akamai servers for many years, replaced as needed
(including one failed servre replaced right before they turned them
off).  Now about 50% of our Akamai traffic comes across transit links,
not peering.  This seems like it would be rather inefficient for them
too...

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Chris Adams <cma () cmadams net>