On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 06:11:11PM +0000, Warren Bailey wrote:
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?
They didn't make it available to everyone on the same day. My iphone 5 didn't see it until today; I looked yesterday, and it wasn't available for that device. I'm busily contributing to the network stress now. -- Mike Andrews, W5EGO mikea@mikea.ath.cx Tired old sysadmin