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Re: iOS 7 update traffic
From: Neil Harris <neil () tonal clara co uk>
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 11:59:59 +0100
On 23/09/13 10:32, John Smith wrote:
Picked this off www.jaluri.com (network and Cisco blog aggregator): http://routingfreak.wordpress.com/2013/09/23/ios7s-impact-on-networks-worldwide/ The consensus seems to be for providers to install CDN servers, if they arent able to cope up with an occasional OS update traffic. http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=391B4B64-F693-41B7-6BBAC6D7017C3B8A John
Perhaps Apple, Microsoft etc. should consider using Bittorrent as a way of distributing their updates? If ISPs were to run their own Bittorrent servers (with appropriate restrictions, see below), this would then create an instant CDN, with no need to define any other protocols or pay any third parties.
The hard bit would be to create a way for Apple etc. to be able to authoritatively say "we are the content owners, and are happy for you to replicate this locally": but perhaps this could be as simple serving the initial seed from an HTTPS server with a valid certificate? It would then be trivial to create a whitelist of the domains of the top 10 or so distributors of patches, and then everything would work automatically from then on.
-- N.
Current thread:
- Re: iOS 7 update traffic, (continued)
- Re: iOS 7 update traffic joel jaeggli (Sep 19)
- Re: iOS 7 update traffic Brandon Galbraith (Sep 19)
- Re: iOS 7 update traffic joel jaeggli (Sep 19)
- Re: iOS 7 update traffic TR Shaw (Sep 20)
- Re: iOS 7 update traffic Octavio Alvarez (Sep 19)
- Re: iOS 7 update traffic Valdis . Kletnieks (Sep 19)
- RE: iOS 7 update traffic Keith Medcalf (Sep 19)
- Re: iOS 7 update traffic joel jaeggli (Sep 19)
- Re: iOS 7 update traffic Colin Alston (Sep 22)
- Re: iOS 7 update traffic John Smith (Sep 23)
- Re: iOS 7 update traffic Neil Harris (Sep 23)
- Re: iOS 7 update traffic Glen Kent (Sep 23)
- Re: iOS 7 update traffic Simon Leinen (Sep 23)
- Re: iOS 7 update traffic Leo Bicknell (Sep 23)
- Re: iOS 7 update traffic Joe Abley (Sep 23)
- Re: iOS 7 update traffic Carsten Bormann (Sep 23)
- Re: iOS 7 update traffic Ralph J.Mayer (Sep 23)
- Re: iOS 7 update traffic Glen Kent (Sep 23)
- Re: iOS 7 update traffic Jared Mauch (Sep 23)
- Re: iOS 7 update traffic Jeroen Massar (Sep 23)
- Re: iOS 7 update traffic Joe Abley (Sep 23)