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iOS 7 update traffic
Apple pushed out a new software upgrade for their user interface...a pretty
big upgrade, all the iphone users are downloading it congesting the network.
Garrison Carr
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-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Ferguson [mailto:fergdawgster at mykolab.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2013 10:58 AM
To: NANOG
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 in adavnce,
- ferg
On 9/19/2013 10:23 AM, Nick Olsen wrote:
> We also saw a huge spike in traffic. Still pretty high today as well.
> We saw a ~60% above average hit yesterday, And we're at ~20-30% above
> average today as well.
> Being an android user, It didn't dawn on me until some of the IOS
> users in the office started jumping up and down about IOS7 Nick Olsen
> Network Operations (855) FLSPEED x106
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> From: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner at cluebyfour.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 6:19 PM
> To: "NANOG" <nanog at 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 on a normal weekday.
>
> jms
>
>> Zachary McGibbon wrote on 18/9/2013 20:38:
>>> 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
>>>
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