Apple does use CDN’s and does peer quite a bit as well.. What I have seen is our peering with Apple goes to a certain level of bandwidth and then spills over to CDN’s that we are either peered with or have on-net caches. From our network perspective it’s simply a matter of ensuring there is enough capacit on the peering links and/or cache capacity. If both of those options are exceeded then upstream transit starts to fill in the gap (only seen that happen once).
Paul > On Sep 17, 2017, at 7:34 PM, Jean-Francois Mezei > <jfmezei_na...@vaxination.ca> wrote: > > On 2017-09-17 18:41, Eduardo Schoedler wrote: >> https://www.peeringdb.com/net/3554 > > Peering would reduce an ISP's reliance on transit provider (and thus > load on transit providers) hut still present same problem on the ISP's > internal network. > > Also, doesn't Apple use a CDN such as Akamai or L3 to deliver content > like that? > >> "We do have another option to consider - >> http://www.apple.com/osx/server/features/#caching-server"; > > Considering Apple has been out of the server business since 2010, Would > ISPs really bother installing/configuring (and finding a spot on a rack > shelf ) for a Mac Mini only to reduce load once a year ? >
