Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-27 Thread Darren O'Connor
It's back with this: Ben quite succinctly sums it up on a nanog mailing list, “Your (the service provider) user is paying you to push packets. If that’s causing you a problem, you either need to review your commercial structure (i.e. charge people more) or your technical network design. Face

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-26 Thread Mark Lancaster
I have heard a lot of questions and debate about whether the iOS updates download automatically: “Available updates download automatically if your device is connected to Wi-Fi and a power source.” http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4623 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4623 /mark

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-26 Thread Cutler James R
On Sep 26, 2013, at 5:22 PM, Mark Lancaster markl...@gmail.com wrote: I have heard a lot of questions and debate about whether the iOS updates download automatically: “Available updates download automatically if your device is connected to Wi-Fi and a power source.”

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-26 Thread Geoffrey Keating
Cutler James R james.cut...@consultant.com writes: On Sep 26, 2013, at 5:22 PM, Mark Lancaster markl...@gmail.com wrote: I have heard a lot of questions and debate about whether the iOS updates download automatically: “Available updates download automatically if your device is

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-25 Thread Matt Palmer
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 08:36:30PM -0500, Joe Greco wrote: That's just the typical Bittorrent /client/, but the idea of using Bittorrent means the /protocol/. A special Bittorrent client could be written for ISPs with uploads disabled and Apple could also disable them on the

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-24 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Tue, 24 Sep 2013, Jay Ashworth wrote: Fixing 4 (which is an easy engineering issue) and 5 (which is an operations policy issue that, by and large, most people in that situation understand), *would have had a direct positive effect on Apple's paying customers*. Fixing 4 is something apple

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-24 Thread Jared Mauch
On Sep 24, 2013, at 12:45 AM, Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com wrote: Strawman, Randy. Clearly, the Internet is *not* up to the task of 1) updating several dozen million devices 2) on links of various quality, 3) with 650MB to 1.2GB downloads and 4) a client that doesn't understand

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-24 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Jared Mauch ja...@puck.nether.net It went well for most users, it seems the 1-5% of people with odd configs are the problem. [ ... ] IOS7 and monitored for it. Not everything will work for everyone, but for the majority of users it was fine. (This from

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-24 Thread Glen Kent
Picked this off www.jaluri.com (network and Cisco blog aggregator): http://routingfreak.wordpress.com/2013/09/23/ios7s-impact-on-networks-worldwide/ The consensus seems to be for providers to install CDN servers, if they arent able to cope up with an occasional OS update traffic. While his

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-24 Thread Ben
On 24/09/2013 17:55, Glen Kent wrote: Picked this off www.jaluri.com (network and Cisco blog aggregator): http://routingfreak.wordpress.com/2013/09/23/ios7s-impact-on-networks-worldwide/ The consensus seems to be for providers to install CDN servers, if they arent able to cope up with an

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-24 Thread Jon Sands
You've been robbed! On 9/24/2013 1:36 PM, Ben wrote: Hang on a minute. That last paragraph in his blog sounds awfully similar to something I posted here the other day ! He says on the 23rd of September : Users are paying service providers to deliver their IP packets. If providers cant

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-24 Thread Ben
On 24/09/2013 18:54, Michael Brown wrote: That is most assuredly a rewrite, it's not just your perception. M. Surprise surprise, that page now appears to Error 404... guess he must watch the list quite closely as it didn't take long for him to react ! ;-) Guess I should be flattered

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-23 Thread John Smith
://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=391B4B64-F693-41B7-6BBAC6D7017C3B8A John From: Colin Alston colin.als...@gmail.com To: Warren Bailey wbai...@satelliteintelligencegroup.com Cc: NANOG nanog@nanog.org Sent: Monday, 23 September 2013, 1:05 Subject: Re: iOS 7 update traffic

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-23 Thread Neil Harris
On 23/09/13 10:32, John Smith wrote: Picked this off www.jaluri.com (network and Cisco blog aggregator): http://routingfreak.wordpress.com/2013/09/23/ios7s-impact-on-networks-worldwide/ The consensus seems to be for providers to install CDN servers, if they arent able to cope up with an

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-23 Thread Glen Kent
One of the earlier posts seems to suggest that if iOS updates were cached on the ISPs CDN server then the traffic would have been manageable since everybody would only contact the local sever to get the image. Is this assumption correct? Do most big service providers maintain their own content

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-23 Thread Ralph J.Mayer
Perhaps Apple, Microsoft etc. should consider using Bittorrent as a way of distributing their updates? If ISPs were to run their own Bittorrent servers (with appropriate restrictions, see below), this would then create an instant CDN, with no need to define any other protocols or pay any

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-23 Thread Simon Leinen
Glen Kent writes: One of the earlier posts seems to suggest that if iOS updates were cached on the ISPs CDN server then the traffic would have been manageable since everybody would only contact the local sever to get the image. Is this assumption correct? Not necessarily. I think most of the

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-23 Thread Leo Bicknell
On Sep 23, 2013, at 8:10 AM, Simon Leinen simon.lei...@switch.ch wrote: Not necessarily. I think most of the iOS 7 update traffic WAS in fact delivered from CDN servers (in particular Akamai). And many/most large service providers already have Akamai servers in their networks. But they

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-23 Thread Glen Kent
BTW Linux distributions are available to download via bittorrent, so we dont really need Akamai/Limelight here. Is there a reason why Apple has not adopted bit-torrent for distribution? Are there legal/commercial implications using bit-torrent? Glen On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Neil Harris

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-23 Thread Joe Abley
On 2013-09-23, at 09:10, Simon Leinen simon.lei...@switch.ch wrote: Glen Kent writes: One of the earlier posts seems to suggest that if iOS updates were cached on the ISPs CDN server then the traffic would have been manageable since everybody would only contact the local sever to get the

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-23 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Sep 23, 2013, at 15:10, Simon Leinen simon.lei...@switch.ch wrote: Glen Kent writes: One of the earlier posts seems to suggest that if iOS updates were cached on the ISPs CDN server then the traffic would have been manageable since everybody would only contact the local sever to get the

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-23 Thread Jared Mauch
On Sep 23, 2013, at 9:41 AM, Glen Kent glen.k...@gmail.com wrote: BTW Linux distributions are available to download via bittorrent, so we dont really need Akamai/Limelight here. Is there a reason why Apple has not adopted bit-torrent for distribution? Are there legal/commercial implications

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-23 Thread Jeroen Massar
On 2013-09-23 15:41 , Glen Kent wrote: BTW Linux distributions are available to download via bittorrent, I am very sure that you will be happy to see your customer's UPSTREAM links filled with that traffic... next to you having a shiny CDN and then having to do traffic to ISPs who do not have

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-23 Thread Joe Abley
On 2013-09-23, at 09:41, Glen Kent glen.k...@gmail.com wrote: BTW Linux distributions are available to download via bittorrent, so we dont really need Akamai/Limelight here. Is there a reason why Apple has not adopted bit-torrent for distribution? Are there legal/commercial implications

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-23 Thread Blake Dunlap
Bit torrent is a way to lighten the load on the originator, and to increase the speed of the acquisition from the receivers. It is not a tool to decrease network load, if anything it does the opposite most of the time. Every now and then, a client will find a local network peer, but its usually

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-23 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Mikael Abrahamsson swm...@swm.pp.se To: Paul Ferguson fergdawgs...@mykolab.com On Thu, 19 Sep 2013, Paul Ferguson wrote: Can someone please explain to a non-Apple person what the hell happened that started generating so much traffic? Perhaps I missed it

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-23 Thread Octavio Alvarez
That's just the typical Bittorrent /client/, but the idea of using Bittorrent means the /protocol/. A special Bittorrent client could be written for ISPs with uploads disabled and Apple could also disable them on the update-downloading Bittorrent client for the phones. The clients (be it

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-23 Thread Joe Greco
That's just the typical Bittorrent /client/, but the idea of using Bittorrent means the /protocol/. A special Bittorrent client could be written for ISPs with uploads disabled and Apple could also disable them on the update-downloading Bittorrent client for the phones. The clients (be it

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-23 Thread Jeff Kell
On 9/23/2013 9:36 PM, Joe Greco wrote: So then all the networks that have done $things to BitTorrent to demote it to second-rate traffic will suddenly have a bunch of very angry Apple fans whose downloads are mysteriously having issues. Just ask the Blizzard fans (World of Warcraft) about this

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-23 Thread Randy Bush
So then all the networks that have done $things to BitTorrent to demote it to second-rate traffic will suddenly have a bunch of very angry Apple fans whose downloads are mysteriously having issues. Just ask the Blizzard fans (World of Warcraft) about this phenomenon... i love the business

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-23 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Randy Bush ra...@psg.com i love the business plan of preventing the users from getting what they want. i think all my competitors should follow it. Strawman, Randy. Clearly, the Internet is *not* up to the task of 1) updating several dozen million devices

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-23 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On 09/23/2013 08:36 PM, Joe Greco wrote: That's just the typical Bittorrent /client/, but the idea of using Bittorrent means the /protocol/. A special Bittorrent client could be written for ISPs with uploads disabled and Apple could also disable them on the update-downloading Bittorrent client

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-22 Thread Colin Alston
message From: Mikael Abrahamsson swm...@swm.pp.se Date: 09/19/2013 11:16 AM (GMT-08:00) To: Warren Bailey wbai...@satelliteintelligencegroup.com Cc: Paul Ferguson fergdawgs...@mykolab.com,NANOG nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: iOS 7 update traffic On Thu, 19 Sep 2013, Warren Bailey wrote

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-21 Thread Jean-Francois Mezei
http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/09/20/upgrading.spike.doubled.some.isp.traffic.12.percent.worldwide.internet.usage.jump/ ## Upgrading spike doubled some ISP traffic; 12 percent worldwide Internet usage jump ... Analytics company Mixpanel estimates that more than 130 million users had

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-20 Thread TR Shaw
/19/2013 3:04 PM (GMT-08:00) To: Jeroen van Aart jer...@mompl.net Cc: nanog@nanog.org nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: iOS 7 update traffic On Sep 19, 2013, at 3:11 PM, Jeroen van Aart jer...@mompl.net wrote: On 09/19/2013 12:06 PM, Ryan Harden wrote: As a side note, how are some of you

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-20 Thread Tom Taylor
On 19/09/2013 9:29 PM, Jeff Kell wrote: On 9/19/2013 5:29 PM, Warren Bailey wrote: So you understand things aren't always metro e.. That's what I was trying to say. I still have a coupler.. ;) Original message From: Fred Reimer frei...@freimer.org Actually, I started out

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-20 Thread Stephen Frost
* Ben (ben+na...@list-subs.com) wrote: No need for you to bash Apple in this instance. What this conversation badly needs is a sub-thread about whatever happened to the technical solutions which would address this issue (eg: mbone). Of course, I know what happened and what the issues are there,

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-20 Thread Ben
Why does apple feel it is okay to send every mobile device an update on a single day? (a) That's why god invented the concept of CDNsto take the stress of the more contended parts of an operators network. ;-) (b) Its not just Apple but any vendor (e.g. Microsloth) their updates

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-20 Thread Jared Mauch
On Sep 19, 2013, at 7:13 PM, Mark Andrews ma...@isc.org wrote: Oh you mean that option that never made it past a internet-draft that expired 13 years ago[1] and is in the private range[2] to boot. If you want proxy discovery to work on all devices complete the process of getting a code

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-20 Thread Mark Andrews
In message f11ff3cf-d363-4af0-a030-b72cd68dd...@puck.nether.net, Jared Mauch writes: On Sep 19, 2013, at 7:13 PM, Mark Andrews ma...@isc.org wrote: Oh you mean that option that never made it past a internet-draft that expired 13 years ago[1] and is in the private range[2] to boot. If

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-20 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 9/20/2013 5:55 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: So you fix one part at a time. Each part is independently fixable. Each part helps by itself. I wonder it the thing that needs to be fixed first involves opening a dialog between Engineering and Marketing over which the message Don't sell stuff we

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-20 Thread Larry Sheldon
From a Facebook posting: So need the masses input.. If you updated to iOS 7... Wed I installed it, it was fine. Thursday fine as well. But today.. It just wants to keep resetting itself every 15-20 mins. It's just on my 4s... Any one else having this issue? Just wondering. -- Requiescas

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-20 Thread Mikeal Clark
I've seen 4s with the panic.list problem after upgrade. Apple claims hardware issue. On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 8:13 PM, Larry Sheldon larryshel...@cox.net wrote: From a Facebook posting: So need the masses input.. If you updated to iOS 7... Wed I installed it, it was fine. Thursday fine as

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-19 Thread TR Shaw
Haven't updated my iPad yet but the iPhone update size was 1.12GB On Sep 19, 2013, at 2:05 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: On Thu, 19 Sep 2013, Paul Ferguson wrote: Can someone please explain to a non-Apple person what the hell happened that started generating so much traffic? Perhaps I

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-19 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 9/19/13 10:58 AM, Paul Ferguson wrote: Can someone please explain to a non-Apple person what the hell happened that started generating so much traffic? Perhaps I missed it in this thread, but I would be curious to know what iOS 7 implemented that caused this... iOS 7 itself was

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-19 Thread Nick Olsen
...@flhsi.com, nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: iOS 7 update traffic Can someone please explain to a non-Apple person what the hell happened that started generating so much traffic? Perhaps I missed it in this thread, but I would be curious to know what iOS 7 implemented that caused this... Thanks

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-19 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Thu, 19 Sep 2013, Paul Ferguson wrote: Can someone please explain to a non-Apple person what the hell happened that started generating so much traffic? Perhaps I missed it in this thread, but I would be curious to know what iOS 7 implemented that caused this... I think this was just the

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-19 Thread TR Shaw
, 2013 6:19 PM To: NANOG nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: iOS 7 update traffic On Wed, 18 Sep 2013, Tassos Chatzithomaoglou wrote: We also noticed an interesting spike (+ ~40%), mostly in akamai. The same happened on previous iOS too. I see it here, too. At its peak, our traffic levels were

RE: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-19 Thread Darren O'Connor
It was released Thanks Darren http://www.mellowd.co.uk/ccie Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 10:58:24 -0700 From: fergdawgs...@mykolab.com To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: iOS 7 update traffic Can someone please explain to a non-Apple person what the hell happened that started generating so

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-19 Thread Paul Ferguson
Network Operations (855) FLSPEED x106 From: Justin M. Streiner strei...@cluebyfour.org Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 6:19 PM To: NANOG nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: iOS 7 update traffic On Wed, 18 Sep 2013, Tassos Chatzithomaoglou wrote: We also

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-19 Thread Nick Olsen
Olsen Network Operations (855) FLSPEED x106 From: Justin M. Streiner strei...@cluebyfour.org Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 6:19 PM To: NANOG nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: iOS 7 update traffic On Wed, 18 Sep 2013, Tassos Chatzithomaoglou wrote: We also

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-19 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Thu, 19 Sep 2013, Paul Ferguson wrote: Can someone please explain to a non-Apple person what the hell happened that started generating so much traffic? Perhaps I missed it in this thread, but I would be curious to know what iOS 7 implemented that caused this... The IOS7 upgrade is ~750

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-19 Thread Joe Abley
On 2013-09-19, at 13:58, Paul Ferguson fergdawgs...@mykolab.com wrote: Can someone please explain to a non-Apple person what the hell happened that started generating so much traffic? Perhaps I missed it in this thread, but I would be curious to know what iOS 7 implemented that caused

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-19 Thread Paul Ferguson
Okay, that makes sense. Just wanted to ensure it wasn't something more sinister. Thanks, - ferg On 9/19/2013 11:05 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: On Thu, 19 Sep 2013, Paul Ferguson wrote: Can someone please explain to a non-Apple person what the hell happened that started generating so

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-19 Thread Phil Bedard
...@cluebyfour.org Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 6:19 PM To: NANOG nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: iOS 7 update traffic On Wed, 18 Sep 2013, Tassos Chatzithomaoglou wrote: We also noticed an interesting spike (+ ~40%), mostly in akamai. The same happened on previous iOS too. I see it here, too

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-19 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
@nanog.org Subject: Re: iOS 7 update traffic On Wed, 18 Sep 2013, Tassos Chatzithomaoglou wrote: We also noticed an interesting spike (+ ~40%), mostly in akamai. The same happened on previous iOS too. I see it here, too. At its peak, our traffic levels were roughly double what we would see

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-19 Thread Warren Bailey
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Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-19 Thread Warren Bailey
A line, is a line, is a line, is a line. There's no difference. Updates are available to all devices on a download day, and providers networks are drastically reduced in capacity as a result. Apple does not cut them checks to serve it up, why should that traffic be more important than anything

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-19 Thread Fred Reimer
/2013 11:08 AM (GMT-08:00) To: Paul Ferguson fergdawgs...@mykolab.com Cc: NANOG nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: iOS 7 update traffic On Thu, 19 Sep 2013, Paul Ferguson wrote: Can someone please explain to a non-Apple person what the hell happened that started generating so much traffic? Perhaps I

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-19 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
, is offered peering for free. What was the problem again? -- TTFN, patrick Original message From: Mikael Abrahamsson swm...@swm.pp.se Date: 09/19/2013 11:08 AM (GMT-08:00) To: Paul Ferguson fergdawgs...@mykolab.com Cc: NANOG nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: iOS 7 update traffic

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-19 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 19 Sep 2013 18:11:11 -, Warren Bailey said: Why does apple feel it is okay to send every mobile device an update on a single day? How is Patch Tuesday any different? pgpOIAByDzs9N.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-19 Thread Warren Bailey
Cc: NANOG nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: iOS 7 update traffic My.. Our.. Users expect one thing.. Internet. It is our job to make that happen. When a electronics manufacturer decides to enable updates for all of their phones world wide.. It breaks things. When the Internet breaks, it is my

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-19 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
(merging 2 replies) On Thu, 19 Sep 2013 19:11:21 -, Warren Bailey said: Patch Tuesday is not 1gb per patch. It is those months a service pack comes out. On Thu, 19 Sep 2013 18:22:50 -, Warren Bailey said: These people (Apple) represent themselves as smart guys, but their actions

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-19 Thread Gabriel Blanchard
On 13-09-19 02:46 PM, Warren Bailey wrote: A line, is a line, is a line, is a line. There's no difference. Updates are available to all devices on a download day, and providers networks are drastically reduced in capacity as a result. Apple does not cut them checks to serve it up, why should

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-19 Thread Warren Bailey
Patch Tuesday is not 1gb per patch. On 9/19/13 11:51 AM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Thu, 19 Sep 2013 18:11:11 -, Warren Bailey said: Why does apple feel it is okay to send every mobile device an update on a single day? How is Patch Tuesday any different?

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-19 Thread Joe Abley
On 2013-09-19, at 14:11, Warren Bailey wbai...@satelliteintelligencegroup.com 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

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-19 Thread Cutler James R
On Sep 19, 2013, at 2:11 PM, Warren Bailey wbai...@satelliteintelligencegroup.com wrote: Why does apple feel it is okay to send every mobile device an update on a single day? Apple does not send updates. The user device must request an update. --As a side note, IOS 7 fixes/improves

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-19 Thread Fred Reimer
Woah there. I think you are crossing another line, or at least opening another topic of discussion, when you start talking about transit or last mile providers charging companies for bandwidth that their customers are already paying for. I'd suggest a subject change if we want to open a

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-19 Thread Ryan Brooks
Sounds like a great plan. You could do it for Netflix, Hulu, amazon, Walmart, etc. Get a piece of the action.Am I talking to Verizon? On 9/19/13 1:46 PM, Warren Bailey wrote: A line, is a line, is a line, is a line. There's no difference. Updates are available to all devices on a

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-19 Thread Jethro R Binks
On Thu, 19 Sep 2013, Cutler James R wrote: --As a side note, IOS 7 fixes/improves iDevices in multiple areas, making it a compelling upgrade. That's supposed to be the nature of upgrades. If that's where the matter ended then you'd have no argument. The problem is when it comes to the new

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-19 Thread Cutler James R
On Sep 19, 2013, at 3:10 PM, Fred Reimer frei...@freimer.org wrote: I was making the wrong assumption that people understood how the Internet works. Absolutely! Most people understand that the internet works by use of a browser and are content with that knowledge. Much like most motor

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-19 Thread Jared Mauch
The attitude in this email I have encountered elsewhere. Apple pays for bandwidth, customers pay for access. Not sure why their release strategy is so highly critiqued. Microsoft and others have their own strategies for incremental downloads, caching, etc.. Apple has theirs. Seems like most

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-19 Thread Warren Bailey
) To: Warren Bailey wbai...@satelliteintelligencegroup.com Cc: Paul Ferguson fergdawgs...@mykolab.com,NANOG nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: iOS 7 update traffic On Thu, 19 Sep 2013, Warren Bailey wrote: Why does apple feel it is okay to send every mobile device an update on a single day

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-19 Thread Bryan Irvine
My iPhone4 was about 600MB IIRC. My iPad mini was about that. I have about 7 iDevices between everyone in my immediate family. FWIW not a single one has actually received the notification yet. I've only manually done my 2 devices. I'm waiting to see how long it takes before I get the

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-19 Thread Stephen Fulton
+1 If you do not/cannot have an Akamai cache, connect to an IX that does, and make sure you've got the capacity. My own rule of thumb is have 2x the capacity of your average *peak* traffic on an IX. When big events happen, whether it is news, sporting or a major software update, that extra

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-19 Thread ML
On 9/18/2013 1:38 PM, Zachary McGibbon wrote: So iOS 7 just came out, here's the spike in our graphs going to our ISP here at McGill, anyone else noticing a big spike? [image: internet-sw1 - Traffic - Te0/7 - To Internet1-srp (IR Canet) - TenGigabitEthernet0/7] Zachary McGibbon Traffic was

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-19 Thread Justin M. Streiner
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 : The vast majority of the traffic I saw was served from the Akamai farm

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-19 Thread Bryan Irvine
Apple actually tries to rate-limit the notifications to prevent this, but you can just manually go check and hit the upgrade button yourself. It's pretty well-known that Apple likes to release ~10am, so tens (hundreds?) of millions of users did just that. Since this update is available for all

RE: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-19 Thread Garrison Carr
attachments. NTT America makes no warranty that this email is error or virus free. Thank you . -Original Message- From: Paul Ferguson [mailto:fergdawgs...@mykolab.com] Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2013 10:58 AM To: NANOG Subject: Re: iOS 7 update traffic Can someone please explain

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-19 Thread Mike A
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 06:11:11PM +, 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

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-19 Thread Harry Hoffman
Subject: Re: iOS 7 update traffic On Wed, 18 Sep 2013, Tassos Chatzithomaoglou wrote: We also noticed an interesting spike (+ ~40%), mostly in akamai. The same happened on previous iOS too. I see it here, too. At its peak, our traffic levels were roughly double what we would see on a normal

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-19 Thread Jared Mauch
I might agree if there were no warning, but this has happened a few times a year for many years. It's a predictable pattern and well known. It will last about a week and taper off. Jared Mauch On Sep 19, 2013, at 2:52 PM, Warren Bailey wbai...@satelliteintelligencegroup.com wrote: It's

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-19 Thread Ryan Harden
...@swm.pp.se Date: 09/19/2013 11:16 AM (GMT-08:00) To: Warren Bailey wbai...@satelliteintelligencegroup.com Cc: Paul Ferguson fergdawgs...@mykolab.com,NANOG nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: iOS 7 update traffic On Thu, 19 Sep 2013, Warren Bailey wrote: Why does apple feel it is okay to send

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-19 Thread Warren Bailey
...@mykolab.com,NANOG nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: iOS 7 update traffic On Thu, 19 Sep 2013, Warren Bailey wrote: Why does apple feel it is okay to send every mobile device an update on a single day? They don't, these are users who actively goes into the software upgrade menu and pressing upgrade. I

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-19 Thread Doug McIntyre
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 02:42:12PM -0400, Joe Abley wrote: Given that the code is signed, I'm surprised that iDevices that have already upgraded the hard way don't advertise a update available service on local networks. Individual devices don't care where the updates come from, so long as

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-19 Thread Warren Bailey
) To: Warren Bailey wbai...@satelliteintelligencegroup.com,Mikael Abrahamsson swm...@swm.pp.se,Paul Ferguson fergdawgs...@mykolab.com Cc: NANOG nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: iOS 7 update traffic Why should Apple care if providers have oversubscribed lines or not? As far as I know, Akamai delivers

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-19 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Thu, 19 Sep 2013, Warren Bailey wrote: Why does apple feel it is okay to send every mobile device an update on a single day? They don't, these are users who actively goes into the software upgrade menu and pressing upgrade. I believe the nagging won't start for quite some time. --

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-19 Thread Dorian Kim
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 06:52:51PM +, Warren Bailey wrote: My.. Our.. Users expect one thing.. Internet. Isn't the ability to download something that they want part of the Internet thing that users expect from their service providers? -dorian

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-19 Thread Randy Bush
Can someone please explain to a non-Apple person what the hell happened that started generating so much traffic? Perhaps I missed it in this thread, but I would be curious to know what iOS 7 implemented that caused this... all the borders and highlights from the discarded skeuomorphisms

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-19 Thread Fred Reimer
Subject: Re: iOS 7 update traffic On Thu, 19 Sep 2013, Warren Bailey wrote: Why does apple feel it is okay to send every mobile device an update on a single day? They don't, these are users who actively goes into the software upgrade menu and pressing upgrade. I believe the nagging won't

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-19 Thread Jeroen van Aart
On 09/19/2013 12:06 PM, Ryan Harden wrote: As a side note, how are some of you not aware of this? This has happened with every single Apple OS update since the iPhone was released in 2007. The difference is there are now a couple more million devices out there than there were in 2007. And in

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-19 Thread nanog
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

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-19 Thread Fred Reimer
...@satelliteintelligencegroup.com Reply-To: Warren Bailey wbai...@satelliteintelligencegroup.com Date: Thursday, September 19, 2013 2:52 PM To: Fred Reimer frei...@freimer.org, Mikael Abrahamsson swm...@swm.pp.se, Paul Ferguson fergdawgs...@mykolab.com Cc: NANOG nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: iOS 7 update traffic My.. Our

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-19 Thread Stephen Fulton
Microsoft Windows 8.1 is due out in October.. don't be so sure :) -- Stephen On 19/09/2013 3:11 PM, Warren Bailey wrote: Patch Tuesday is not 1gb per patch. On 9/19/13 11:51 AM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Thu, 19 Sep 2013 18:11:11 -, Warren Bailey said:

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-19 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 19 Sep 2013 19:18:29 -, Warren Bailey said: Reversing a few paragraphs to make a point. We strive to provide a great customer experience, and when Hardware Maker X decides to roll updates .. It can screw us. In this case, can means absolutely will happen. I mean, would it be

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-19 Thread Warren Bailey
Ferguson fergdawgs...@mykolab.com,NANOG nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: iOS 7 update traffic On Thu, 19 Sep 2013 19:18:29 -, Warren Bailey said: Reversing a few paragraphs to make a point. We strive to provide a great customer experience, and when Hardware Maker X decides to roll updates

RE: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-19 Thread John Souvestre
Hi Jared. The attitude in this email I have encountered elsewhere. Apple pays for bandwidth, customers pay for access. Not sure why their release strategy is so highly critiqued. Because it impacts other, non-Apple customers. Or, it costs the ISP more (passed through to all customers)

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-19 Thread Jared Mauch
Dorian, It seems warren may work for a satellite internet provider. (Just guessing). The impact might be different with this type of a link. There isn't a good broadcast caching system for this compared with the way other content is. This may have that type of an impact, but there are likely

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-19 Thread Fred Reimer
...@swm.pp.se, Paul Ferguson fergdawgs...@mykolab.commailto:fergdawgs...@mykolab.com, NANOG nanog@nanog.orgmailto:nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: iOS 7 update traffic I'm willing and open to hear anyone who has successfully had that conversation with their users. When network congestion occurs, we

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-19 Thread Warren Bailey
...@mompl.net Cc: nanog@nanog.org nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: iOS 7 update traffic On Sep 19, 2013, at 3:11 PM, Jeroen van Aart jer...@mompl.net wrote: On 09/19/2013 12:06 PM, Ryan Harden wrote: As a side note, how are some of you not aware of this? This has happened with every single Apple

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