Hi John,
Don't have link handy but I'll ask their support.
Pete
-----Original Message-----
From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Center
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2014 1:57 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] iOS 8 drops tomorrow
Hi Pete,
Do you have a link for Akamai? After reading this, I tried to find out where
to apply, but I couldn't find it.
Thanks.
-John
On 09/16/2014 03:20 PM, Peter P Morrissey wrote:
> We have one and it helped us tremendously for the Apple event last
> week, about a gig worth of traffic. We are counting on it to help us
> tomorrow as well. It is easy to apply, they just have to determine
> that they can offload enough traffic to justify their expense of
> sending and supporting the servers.
>
> Pete Morrissey
>
> *From:*The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv
> [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Jeffrey
> Sessler
> *Sent:* Tuesday, September 16, 2014 2:57 PM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] iOS 8 drops tomorrow
>
> For those of you impacted by such things, have you considered asking
> Akamai to install a local caching appliance on your campus? We did a
> number of years ago, it was free, and greatly reduces the impact on
> our commodity internet while boosting update speeds significantly.
>
> I know Apple is starting to roll out their own CDN, but for now, there
> are a lot of companies besides Apple using Akamai, so it's worth it.
>
> We also just established free direct peering with Netflix. Big
> improvement there too.
>
> Jeff
>
>>>> On Tuesday, September 16, 2014 at 10:31 AM, in message
>>>> <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>>, "Johnson,
> Neil M" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>
> We've add some additional bandwidth to the links between our wireless
> nets and campus in anticipation of heavy traffic tomorrow.
>
> -Neil
>
> --
> Neil Johnson
> Network Engineer
> The University of Iowa
> Phone: 319 384-0938
> Fax: 319 335-2951
> E-Mail: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>
>
>
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