RE: Apple updates - Effect on network
HI, Our GigaPOP (Front Range GigaPOP) and our own Akamai cache server's traffic jumped significantly today. The theory (no data) is the Apple updates released today. Chad Burnham University of Denver -----Original Message----- From: Zachary McGibbon [mailto:zachary.mcgibbon+nanog@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 2:10 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Apple updates - Affect on network With all of Apple's updates today (MacOS, iOS, Apps, etc) we saw a big increase on one of our links to our ISP at 1pm Eastern. Did anyone else notice significant traffic jumps on their networks? [image: image.png] .
The simple updates for a single machine today range in the 700mb-1.5gb or more range 10.7.2+iTunes+one iOS image. With a variety of devices it could easily be 4gb+ per user. Many broadband users are seeing slow akamai speeds because of these updates. I've seen 2+ hour download times myself.... Jared Mauch On Oct 12, 2011, at 5:41 PM, Chad Burnham <cburnham@du.edu> wrote:
HI,
Our GigaPOP (Front Range GigaPOP) and our own Akamai cache server's traffic jumped significantly today. The theory (no data) is the Apple updates released today.
Chad Burnham University of Denver
-----Original Message----- From: Zachary McGibbon [mailto:zachary.mcgibbon+nanog@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 2:10 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Apple updates - Affect on network
With all of Apple's updates today (MacOS, iOS, Apps, etc) we saw a big increase on one of our links to our ISP at 1pm Eastern.
Did anyone else notice significant traffic jumps on their networks?
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On top of all that add that there are many apps that have also been updated today to be in sync with new iOS features. -J On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 4:50 PM, Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net> wrote:
The simple updates for a single machine today range in the 700mb-1.5gb or more range 10.7.2+iTunes+one iOS image. With a variety of devices it could easily be 4gb+ per user. Many broadband users are seeing slow akamai speeds because of these updates. I've seen 2+ hour download times myself....
Jared Mauch
On Oct 12, 2011, at 5:41 PM, Chad Burnham <cburnham@du.edu> wrote:
HI,
Our GigaPOP (Front Range GigaPOP) and our own Akamai cache server's traffic jumped significantly today. The theory (no data) is the Apple updates released today.
Chad Burnham University of Denver
-----Original Message----- From: Zachary McGibbon [mailto:zachary.mcgibbon+nanog@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 2:10 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Apple updates - Affect on network
With all of Apple's updates today (MacOS, iOS, Apps, etc) we saw a big increase on one of our links to our ISP at 1pm Eastern.
Did anyone else notice significant traffic jumps on their networks?
HI,
Our GigaPOP (Front Range GigaPOP) and our own Akamai cache server's
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 10/12/2011 5:41 PM, Chad Burnham wrote: traffic
jumped significantly today. The theory (no data) is the Apple updates released today.
Chad Burnham University of Denver
-----Original Message----- From: Zachary McGibbon [mailto:zachary.mcgibbon+nanog@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 2:10 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Apple updates - Affect on network
With all of Apple's updates today (MacOS, iOS, Apps, etc) we saw a big increase on one of our links to our ISP at 1pm Eastern.
Did anyone else notice significant traffic jumps on their networks?
[image: image.png]
Yesterday, around 1PM ET, we saw a nearly 40% increase in inbound traffic, almost all from Akamai. It continued until around 2AM this morning, though, at one point, the traffic switched providers. Interestingly enough, we are peered directly with Akamai at Equnix- Ashburn, and at no point did this traffic use that link. Last time we saw such discrete large inbound flows was the World Cup. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJOltybAAoJEBxhAh+LWUKil5UH/i1KvIWy7OrrKNhVjWFQ/VuH OUJg5hJFTns8wT8VkBLT0ANwODA4f8UI8AUJU6nhSeOPvHHor10gw9tytT6H5vh4 znDbxqVhOkCeSms+lKWiylKpVaLrenZ/L649as1ThkxZTogUhZfoRzbmQPJXXTw5 kTuwSrkPjOTmjJNffZ7bo7AvM/dyo56XI1TMsnCp3idRxpIGgvZZm0rlQ2GflVtj UhN205L+bLC0T4l1qZOYTs/62uZZLZn4Mb5aAp6kufzcfYIVi0RUqOwGjTYztfAe FytOdzQThZObQoHR253hov/Ogkf11+/vbP7gsGVd9kpjATVk4FbOM75vrcMGn9Q= =738W -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Would love to see some bandwidth graphs. :) Matt. On 13/10/2011 11:42 PM, Andrew Gallo wrote:
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HI,
Our GigaPOP (Front Range GigaPOP) and our own Akamai cache server's
On 10/12/2011 5:41 PM, Chad Burnham wrote: traffic
jumped significantly today. The theory (no data) is the Apple updates released today.
Chad Burnham University of Denver
-----Original Message----- From: Zachary McGibbon [mailto:zachary.mcgibbon+nanog@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 2:10 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Apple updates - Affect on network
With all of Apple's updates today (MacOS, iOS, Apps, etc) we saw a big increase on one of our links to our ISP at 1pm Eastern.
Did anyone else notice significant traffic jumps on their networks?
[image: image.png]
Yesterday, around 1PM ET, we saw a nearly 40% increase in inbound traffic, almost all from Akamai. It continued until around 2AM this morning, though, at one point, the traffic switched providers. Interestingly enough, we are peered directly with Akamai at Equnix- Ashburn, and at no point did this traffic use that link.
Last time we saw such discrete large inbound flows was the World Cup. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/
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Matt Taylor writes:
Would love to see some bandwidth graphs. :)
Here's one from another network. Guess it was a good idea to upgrade that Akamai cluster's uplink to 10GE, even though 2*GE (or was it 4*GE) looked sufficient at the time. Remember folks, "overprovisioning" is a misnomer, it should be called "provisioning for robustness and growth". -- Simon.
Simon Leinen wrote:
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Guess it was a good idea to upgrade that Akamai cluster's uplink to 10GE, even though 2*GE (or was it 4*GE) looked sufficient at the time. Remember folks, "overprovisioning" is a misnomer, it should be called "provisioning for robustness and growth".
If I may change the thrust a bit, this is of interest to me. Just because we're in the midst of similar - changing from 2xGE to 10GE and increasing the number of Akamai nodes. Anyone have similar stats on that sort of conversion, and what to expect?
From what I can tell, there's a fair bit of local, off-net traffic coming to ours, so I'm curious what the turn-up may look like.
This may be just idle curiosity, but what the hey.
On Oct 15, 2011, at 20:06, J <nanog@namor.ca> wrote:
Simon Leinen wrote:
Guess it was a good idea to upgrade that Akamai cluster's uplink to 10GE, even though 2*GE (or was it 4*GE) looked sufficient at the time. Remember folks, "overprovisioning" is a misnomer, it should be called "provisioning for robustness and growth".
If I may change the thrust a bit, this is of interest to me.
Just because we're in the midst of similar - changing from 2xGE to 10GE and increasing the number of Akamai nodes.
Anyone have similar stats on that sort of conversion, and what to expect? From what I can tell, there's a fair bit of local, off-net traffic coming to ours, so I'm curious what the turn-up may look like.
It sounds like you have what Akamai calls an "AANP" deployment. In general, that should not serve users outside your network. There are reasons it can, and you should talk to Akamai about it if you think it is. If you have questions about an on-net node, feel free to email Akamai's Network Support group, NetSupport@akamai.com. They are only M-F, but they can answer any questions you have. -- TTFN, patrick
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