Re: Elephant in the room - Akamai

[Rod Beck <rod.beck () unitedcablecompany com>]

Have there been any fundamental change in their network architecture that might explain pulling these caches?

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From: NANOG <nanog-bounces () nanog org> on behalf of Shawn L via NANOG <nanog () nanog org>
Sent: Saturday, December 7, 2019 8:20 PM
To: Jared Mauch <jared () puck nether net>
Cc: nanog () nanog org <nanog () nanog org>
Subject: Re: Elephant in the room - Akamai


Same -- we had an Akamai cache for 15+ years.  Then we were notified that it was done and were sent boxes to pack our 
stuff up and send it back.





-----Original Message-----
From: "Jared Mauch" <jared () puck nether net>
Sent: Saturday, December 7, 2019 2:05pm
To: "Seth Mattinen" <sethm () rollernet us>
Cc: nanog () nanog org
Subject: Re: Elephant in the room - Akamai



> 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