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Thanks Lee for the link -----Original Message----- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of John Center Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2014 1:57 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] iOS 8 drops tomorrow Hi Pete, Do you have a link for Akamai? After reading this, I tried to find out where to apply, but I couldn't find it. Thanks. -John On 09/16/2014 03:20 PM, Peter P Morrissey wrote: > 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/. > ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at 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/.
