Comments on: What the iOS 5 update did to ISP traffic http://gigaom.com/2011/10/18/what-the-ios-5-update-did-to-isp-traffic/ Wed, 22 May 2013 20:38:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Petri Ojala http://gigaom.com/2011/10/18/what-the-ios-5-update-did-to-isp-traffic/#comment-665981 Wed, 19 Oct 2011 07:14:15 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=422820#comment-665981 That’s what the content distribution network (CDN) services are for. Apple or any other company providing data to the network knows best where their traffic will be destined and how to cache it properly.

The ISP’s should be clear pipes, no caches. They shouldn’t care about the content. Their job is to have more than enough of capacity (it’s cheap in 2011), fast (low latency), and redundancy. And seriously, a few Gbit/s isn’t that big of a deal in 2011.

PS. Yes, ISP caches may still be valid issue in some remote islands with very limited bandwidth. But they are not the solution for anything.

]]> By: Dale http://gigaom.com/2011/10/18/what-the-ios-5-update-did-to-isp-traffic/#comment-665795 Tue, 18 Oct 2011 20:18:52 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=422820#comment-665795 I may be missing something but… “We host the Apple update content locally on AkamaiCDN servers in our datacenter” suggests they are doing just that, serving from their CDN rather than directly from Apple’s server.

]]> By: Jan Aleman http://gigaom.com/2011/10/18/what-the-ios-5-update-did-to-isp-traffic/#comment-665793 Tue, 18 Oct 2011 20:09:49 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=422820#comment-665793 We live in 2011 and ISP’s still can’t cache similar traffic? Have the router guys been sleeping for 30 years? Come on. Ios should be off no impact to any proper designed network.

]]> By: Fabio http://gigaom.com/2011/10/18/what-the-ios-5-update-did-to-isp-traffic/#comment-665773 Tue, 18 Oct 2011 18:53:38 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=422820#comment-665773 Wrong, the same day we’re updating ubuntu to 11.10, iOS5? nobody :D LOL

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