iOS 7 update traffic

[nanog at namor.ca (nanog at namor.ca)]

On Thu, 19 Sep 2013, 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?

As far as I was aware, it was at least staggered throughout the day, so 
there's some concession.

Also a reason to have some CDNs in any large deployment, I guess.  I saw a 
spike in our Akamai traffic, but only slight.

> Sent from my Mobile Device.