The iOS5 effect (network)

Garp · 17-10-2011, 08:12

Thought some of you might get a kick out of this.

This is what iOS5 looks like from an ISPs perspective:

Thankfully for ISPs (and Apple sysadmins), Apple uses Akamai, a Content Delivery Network. They have servers all over the world within most major ISPs infrastructures, so when you go to get iOS5 from Apple, you're actually getting it from an server run by Akamai fairly near to your ISP, rather than pulling from some central location.
That graph is showing the traffic in one medium sized US ISP for their connection to the Akamai servers they host, so that's only the traffic for one ISP

17-10-2011, 08:12	#1
Garp Preparing more tumbleweed Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Hawaii Posts: 6,038	The iOS5 effect (network) Thought some of you might get a kick out of this. This is what iOS5 looks like from an ISPs perspective: Thankfully for ISPs (and Apple sysadmins), Apple uses Akamai, a Content Delivery Network. They have servers all over the world within most major ISPs infrastructures, so when you go to get iOS5 from Apple, you're actually getting it from an server run by Akamai fairly near to your ISP, rather than pulling from some central location. That graph is showing the traffic in one medium sized US ISP for their connection to the Akamai servers they host, so that's only the traffic for one ISP __________________ Mal: Define "interesting"? Wash: "Oh, God, oh, God, we're all gonna die"?