We have one and it helped us tremendously for the Apple event last week, about a gig worth of traffic. We are counting on it to help us tomorrow as well. It is easy to apply, they just have to determine that they can offload enough traffic to justify their expense of sending and supporting the servers. Pete Morrissey From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Jeffrey Sessler Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2014 2:57 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] iOS 8 drops tomorrow
For those of you impacted by such things, have you considered asking Akamai to install a local caching appliance on your campus? We did a number of years ago, it was free, and greatly reduces the impact on our commodity internet while boosting update speeds significantly. I know Apple is starting to roll out their own CDN, but for now, there are a lot of companies besides Apple using Akamai, so it's worth it. We also just established free direct peering with Netflix. Big improvement there too. Jeff >>> On Tuesday, September 16, 2014 at 10:31 AM, in message >>> <1dc7671d-3395-41d4-907c-fb06281ad...@uiowa.edu<mailto:1dc7671d-3395-41d4-907c-fb06281ad...@uiowa.edu>>, >>> "Johnson, Neil M" <neil-john...@uiowa.edu<mailto:neil-john...@uiowa.edu>> >>> wrote: We’ve add some additional bandwidth to the links between our wireless nets and campus in anticipation of heavy traffic tomorrow. -Neil -- Neil Johnson Network Engineer The University of Iowa Phone: 319 384-0938 Fax: 319 335-2951 E-Mail: neil-john...@uiowa.edu<mailto:neil-john...@uiowa.edu> ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.<http://www.educause.edu/groups/> ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
