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 [email protected] Tired old sysadmin
