Picked this off www.jaluri.com (network and Cisco blog aggregator): http://routingfreak.wordpress.com/2013/09/23/ios7s-impact-on-networks-worldw... The consensus seems to be for providers to install CDN servers, if they arent able to cope up with an occasional OS update traffic. http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=391B4B64-F693-41B7-6BBAC6D7017C3B8A John ________________________________ From: Colin Alston <colin.alston@gmail.com> To: Warren Bailey <wbailey@satelliteintelligencegroup.com> Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> Sent: Monday, 23 September 2013, 1:05 Subject: Re: iOS 7 update traffic That system by the way is annoying when your mobile network operator are so oversubscribed/old-fashioned that I had to wait over 6 months before I could update to Android ICS... I really don't want my ability to update the software on my phone to be controlled by a teleco, and these large teleco's really should have Akamai caches in place by now - if they even know what that is. On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 8:22 PM, Warren Bailey < wbailey@satelliteintelligencegroup.com> wrote:
I own a galaxy note 2..tmo ran an update that pushed to unique IMEI's sequentially. That way, you do not..
1. Murder your last mike packet network, which is your bandwidth bottleneck.
2. Murder your ggsn/whateverpacketnodeyouwant closer to the core.
3. Anger your paying customers who would like to use packet data successfully on an ios download day.
These people (Apple) represent themselves as smart guys, but their actions reflect otherwise. I bet this would be a larger deal to Nanog people if your Internet stopped working as the result of 100% Linux adoption. That is very close to what this is.. Tens of millions of people trying to update their 13 ios devices at the same time. Who owns a single ios device? A household could do 5-10gb worth of updates in a single day..
I personally do not own an ios device, and I see close to 3 gigs worth of update traffic at my house. These things are everywhere, and this problem will not stop.
Sent from my Mobile Device.
-------- Original message -------- From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se> Date: 09/19/2013 11:16 AM (GMT-08:00) To: Warren Bailey <wbailey@satelliteintelligencegroup.com> Cc: Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster@mykolab.com>,NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> Subject: Re: iOS 7 update traffic
On Thu, 19 Sep 2013, Warren Bailey wrote:
Why does apple feel it is okay to send every mobile device an update on a single day?
They don't, these are users who actively goes into the software upgrade menu and pressing "upgrade".
I believe the nagging won't start for quite some time.
-- Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se