We didn't notice an out of control increase like iOS 7 but I did note that my phone didn't prompt me for the update, I had to go into the software update area and look for it. This might have kept the bandwidth down or it could be just my phone :>)
Craig On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 6:44 AM, Peter P Morrissey <ppmor...@syr.edu> wrote: > Same here. Overall traffic peaks were higher, but our base levels grow > quite a bit every year, so I would say the percentage of increase wasn’t as > high as last year, but the traffic increase was significant. We saw peaks > on our Internet connection of about a gig higher than normal for time of > day but they were well within our burstable limit, and another gig or so > increase in Akamai traffic. This persisted on and off until around midnight. > > > > Pete Morrissey > > > > *From:* The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto: > WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] *On Behalf Of *Jason Wang > *Sent:* Thursday, September 18, 2014 12:24 AM > *To:* WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU > *Subject:* Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] iOS 8 drops tomorrow > > > > We didn't see as sharp of an increase for this, but overall traffic > reached about the same level for us on iOS 8 as it did last year for iOS 7. > > This is what we saw for iOS 8: > [image: ios8_20140917] > > > And this is what we saw for iOS 7 last year: > [image: ios7_20130918] > > > Jason > > > On 9/17/14, 3:32 PM, Entwistle, Bruce wrote: > > We have not seen as significant of an increase in traffic with the iOS 8 > release as we did with the iOS 7 release. > > > > Bruce Entwistle > > Network Manager > > University of Redlands > > > > *From:* The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [ > mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU > <WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU>] *On Behalf Of *Peter P Morrissey > *Sent:* Wednesday, September 17, 2014 11:38 AM > *To:* WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU > *Subject:* Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] iOS 8 drops tomorrow > > > > Thanks Lee for digging up the link for Akamai signup. > > > > The Akamai caching definitely kicked in for us, offloading up to over a > Gig’s worth. > > > > If you look at a graph of our Internet traffic versus Akamai server > traffic (don’t know if they’ll come through the listserv) you can see that > our Internet traffic took a little jump right at 1:00 PM, but then settled > down to normal levels when the Akamai server traffic spiked up, taking over > the load. Overall though, so far today, the traffic levels from IOS8 > haven’t been too bad. Maybe we’ll see more when the kiddies get out of > class. > > > > Pete > > *`Daily' Graph (5 Minute Average) Internet * > > [image: day] > > *Max* > > *Average* > > *Current* > > *In* > > 3924.1 Mb/s (39.2%) > > 1843.2 Mb/s (18.4%) > > 3296.3 Mb/s (33.0%) > > *Out* > > 615.0 Mb/s (6.2%) > > 323.8 Mb/s (3.2%) > > 420.6 Mb/s (4.2%) > > > > > > *`Daily' Graph (5 Minute Average) Akamai* > > [image: day] > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [ > mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU > <WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU>] On Behalf Of Peter P Morrissey > Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2014 2:09 PM > To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU > Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] iOS 8 drops tomorrow > > > > Hi John, > > Don't have link handy but I'll ask their support. > > Pete > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [ > mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU > <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 > <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. 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