isn't it obvious it high demand? ridiculous really they don't seem to anticipate it
On Oct 13, 2011, at 11:28 PM, Dane Trethowan wrote: > Hi! > > I know its against list policy to forward messages but I think this message I > received from a friend of mine who works for one of Australia's big Mobile > company's to be extremely important for all list members who wish to update > their IOS devices,, this chap - who just happens to be totally blind - is a > mobile engineer with the company who gets hold of first-hand information on > Iphone etc. > > > > Begin forwarded message: > >> >> Owners of an iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and Apple TV were yesterday able to >> update their devices to Apple’s new iOS 5 software, providing them with a >> number of new features and access to the company’s new cloud service iCloud. >> Update below. >> >> Apple experienced problems of its own, with many users unable to update >> their devices because its servers were unable to cope with requests to >> activate their installs, pulling an “internal error occurred (3200)” message >> each time they attempted to install the update. >> >> It appears that whilst Apple stuggled to cope with demand, ISPs were facing >> issues trying to keep traffic flowing through their networks, as Apple >> device owners attempted to download at least 600 megabyte updates. >> >> One ISP, AAISP, was “caught unawares” and yesterday evening saw “silly high >> usage since around 18:40 [BST]” leading them to think that “something [was] >> clearly ‘up’ and there [was] some ‘internet event’ happening”. >> >> As Cult of Mac notes, that “internet event” was the release of iOS 5, Mac OS >> X 10.7.2 and a number of new applications. >> Throughout the evening, AAISP engineers posted on the company’s Incident and >> Status Page, noting just what was happening to its network as subscribers >> fired up their iTunes clients and updated their iOS devices: >> >> At 8.53pm, they wrote: >> This is worse than the world cup traffic! >> >> Two minutes later: >> Only clue is new Apple IOS5 stuff – if that is the cause I am impressed. >> >> At 8:57pm: >> Usage has just reached unprecidented levels – we have not seen anothing like >> this… >> The team then saw that issues were being reported on other UK ISPs, forcing >> them to increase their core link to maximum output to cope with demand. The >> company was forced get its FireBrick team working hard to scale its CPU >> output and loads to cope with “unprecidented levels of usage”, something >> that could have failed users should it not have been adequately managed. >> >> They also exclaimed that they knew that there was a Windows Update and >> Apple’s iOS 5 release, but didn’t believe that could have been just those >> updates. >> >> However at 8:45am this morning, AAISP engineers confirmed that suspicion: >> We are guessing this was IOS5 release. >> >> TNW contributor Steve Kennedy noticed the spike at a London broadband >> exchange, sharing a graph of the traffic boost at the time: >> The traffic at the LONAP (LONAP is a London Neutral Internet Exchange Point >> where Internet and content providers exchange traffic) increased from a >> normal peak of around 18Gb/s to around 28Gb/s. >> >> This was just in the UK but will have almost certainly been mirrored across >> the world. >> >> Did Apple break the Internet? Probably not. It just gave some ISP engineers >> a bit of a scare. >> >> Update: Andy Davidson, the Director of LONAP, gave us this statement about >> the traffic: >> The traffic was around twice what we would see on a typical Wednesday >> evening. There was as much traffic as we would see for a major sporting >> event (such as England playing in the World or European cups). Such volumes >> have never been seen before for a software upgrade. >> Sean McGerty | Architect | Converged Architecture & Design | Mobile & >> Converged Service Engineering | Optus Networks | 1 Lyonpark Road, >> Macquarie Park NSW 2113 | t: +61 2 8082 1258 >> **** DISCLAIMER **** >> This e-mail may contain confidential information. If you are not the >> intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and delete this >> e-mail from your system. You must not disclose this email to anyone without >> express permission from the sender. The contents of all emails sent to, and >> received from, Optus may be scanned, stored, or disclosed to others by Optus >> at Optus' discretion. 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