That's we thought and what we experienced but as the day went on they definitely shifted some load to Akamai. -dan Dan Brisson Network Engineer University of Vermont On 9/19/2014 10:33 AM, Andy Ringsmuth wrote:
---------------------------------------- From: "Zachary McGibbon" <zachary.mcgibbon+nanog@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2014 12:59 PM To: "NANOG" <nanog@nanog.org> Subject: Here comes iOS 8... So Apple is about to release iOS 8... Have you done anything special to your network setup to accommodate the traffic flood ie traffic shaping rules, cache servers, etc?
I heard that Apple Caching servers won't work with this update, so I'm guessing it will be pushed through Akamai servers as is usually is.
- Zachary Interestingly enough, it seems Apple primarily used it's own, new, CDN for the iOS 8 release:
http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/09/18/apple-chose-to-handle-ios-8-rollou...
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