Re: Elephant in the room - Akamai

[Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuhnke () gmail com>]

I think this thread might be a perfect example that when an organization
reaches a sufficiently large size, one part of its engineering/operations
team may no longer be fully aware of what other work groups are doing.
Definitely a structural challenge for ISPs that span very large
geographical areas and services/roles.





On Sat, Dec 7, 2019 at 11:06 AM Jared Mauch <jared () puck nether net> wrote:

> > On Dec 7, 2019, at 12:06 PM, Seth Mattinen <sethm () rollernet us> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> > 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