Great info! I just signed up... :-) -John
On 09/17/2014 02:43 PM, Byron Sayres wrote: > John – > > Here is the link to sign up with Akamai. The minimum Akamai traffic > needed to justify is approx. 500Mbps. > > http://www.akamai.com/html/forms/become_a_provider.html > > Byron Sayres > Director of Information Technology > Alderson Broaddus University > 101 College Hill Dr > Philippi, WV 26416 > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>- Email > 304-457-6225 - Phone > 304-709-2690 - Cell > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>– Jabber > > *From:* The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv > [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Peter P Morrissey > *Sent:* Wednesday, September 17, 2014 2:38 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] iOS 8 drops tomorrow > > Thanks Lee for digging up the link for Akamai signup. > > The Akamai caching definitely kicked in for us, offloading up to over a > Gig’s worth. > > If you look at a graph of our Internet traffic versus Akamai server > traffic (don’t know if they’ll come through the listserv) you can see > that our Internet traffic took a little jump right at 1:00 PM, but then > settled down to normal levels when the Akamai server traffic spiked up, > taking over the load. Overall though, so far today, the traffic levels > from IOS8 haven’t been too bad. Maybe we’ll see more when the kiddies > get out of class. > > Pete > > *`Daily' Graph (5 Minute Average) Internet * > > day > > > > *Max* > > > > *Average* > > > > *Current* > > *In* > > > > 3924.1 Mb/s (39.2%) > > > > 1843.2 Mb/s (18.4%) > > > > 3296.3 Mb/s (33.0%) > > *Out* > > > > 615.0 Mb/s (6.2%) > > > > 323.8 Mb/s (3.2%) > > > > 420.6 Mb/s (4.2%) > > *`Daily' Graph (5 Minute Average) Akamai* > > day > > -----Original Message----- > From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Peter P Morrissey > Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2014 2:09 PM > To: [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] iOS 8 drops tomorrow > > 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] > <mailto:[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] > <mailto:[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] > <mailto:[email protected]%20%3cmailto:[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]> > <mailto:[email protected]> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ********** > > > Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE > > > Constituent Group discussion list can be found at > http://www.educause.edu/groups/. > > > <http://www.educause.edu/groups/> > > > > > > ********** Participation and subscription information for this > > > EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at > > > http://www.educause.edu/groups/. > > > > > ********** > > Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent > Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. > > ********** > > Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent > Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. > > ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE > Constituent Group discussion list can be found at > http://www.educause.edu/groups/. > > ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE > Constituent Group discussion list can be found at > http://www.educause.edu/groups/. > ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
