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Re: Elephant in the room - Akamai
From: Keenan Tims <ktims () stargate ca>
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2019 11:29:39 -0800
Speaking as a (very) small operator, we've also been seeing less and less of our Akamai traffic coming to us over peering over the last couple years. I've reached out to Akamai NOC as well as Jared directly on a few occasions and while they've been helpful and their changes usually have some short-term impact, the balance has always shifted back some weeks/months later. I've more or less resigned myself to this being how Akamai wants things, and as we so often have to as small fish, just dealing with it.
We're currently seeing about 80% of our AS20940 origin traffic coming from transit, and I'm certain there's a significant additional amount which is difficult to identify coming from on-net caches at our upstream providers (though it appears from the thread that may be reducing as well). Only about 20% is coming from peering where we have significantly more capacity and lower costs. Whatever the algorithm is doing, from my perspective it doesn't make a lot of sense and is pretty frustrating, and I'm somewhat concerned about busting commits and possibly running into congestion for the next big event that does hit us, which would not be a problem if it were delivered over peering.
Luckily we're business focussed, so we're not getting hit by these gaming events.
Keenan Tims Stargate Connections Inc (AS19171) On 2019-12-06 8:13 a.m., Jared Mauch wrote:
On Dec 6, 2019, at 9:59 AM, Chris Adams <cma () cmadams net> wrote: Once upon a time, Fawcett, Nick <nfawcett () corp mtco com> said:We had three onsite Akamai caches a few months ago. They called us up and said they are removing that service and sent us boxes to pack up the hardware and ship back. We’ve had quite the increase in DIA traffic as a result of it.Same here. We'd had Akamai servers for many years, replaced as needed (including one failed servre replaced right before they turned them off). Now about 50% of our Akamai traffic comes across transit links, not peering. This seems like it would be rather inefficient for them too…There’s an element of scale when it comes to certain content that makes it not viable if the majority of traffic is VOD with variable bitrates it requires a lot more capital. Things like downloads of software updates (eg: patch Tuesday) lend themselves to different optimizations. The hardware has a cost as well as the bandwidth as well. I’ll say that most places that have a few servers may only see a minor improvement in their in:out. If you’re not peering with us or are and see significant traffic via transit, please do reach out. I’m happy to discuss in private or at any NANOG/IETF meeting people are at. We generally have someone at most of the other NOG meetings as well, including RIPE, APRICOT and even GPF etc. I am personally always looking for better ways to serve the medium (or small) size providers better. - Jared
Current thread:
- Re: Elephant in the room - Akamai, (continued)
- Re: Elephant in the room - Akamai Michael Thomas (Dec 05)
- Re: Elephant in the room - Akamai Valdis Klētnieks (Dec 05)
- Re: Elephant in the room - Akamai Stephen Satchell (Dec 05)
- Re: Elephant in the room - Akamai Fred Baker (Dec 08)
- Re: Elephant in the room - Akamai Michael Thomas (Dec 08)
- Re: Elephant in the room - Akamai Michael Thomas (Dec 06)
- Re: Elephant in the room - Akamai Chris Adams (Dec 05)
- Re: Elephant in the room - Akamai Chris Adams (Dec 06)
- Re: Elephant in the room - Akamai Jared Mauch (Dec 06)
- Re: Elephant in the room - Akamai Keenan Tims (Dec 06)
- Re: Elephant in the room - Akamai Mark Tinka (Dec 07)
- Re: Elephant in the room - Akamai Jared Mauch (Dec 07)
- Re: Elephant in the room - Akamai Shawn L via NANOG (Dec 07)
- Re: Elephant in the room - Akamai Rod Beck (Dec 07)
- Re: Elephant in the room - Akamai Jared Mauch (Dec 07)
- Re: Elephant in the room - Akamai Mark Tinka (Dec 07)
- Re: Elephant in the room - Akamai Ben Cannon (Dec 08)