AMS-IX Breaks 4 Terabits per Second Barrier

Post by TranceMan » Thu, Sep 17, 2015, 11:45 AM UTC

threeseed wrote: post #29

TranceMan wrote: post #24

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More likely due to the release of iOS9. A couple of other European Internet exchanges also peaked last night [0]. In the past few years Apple have been embracing public peering much more - according to PeeringDB they are at 37 locations with many having multiple 100G connections. 0: https://stats.linx.net/aggregate.html

But Apple uses Akamai as their CDN. I always assumed given its age and role that it would have the best peering bar none.

Post by Loic » Thu, Sep 17, 2015, 12:11 PM UTC

TranceMan wrote: post #24

Loic wrote: post #21

This is really interesting to see the 19h -> 24h increases in traffic. Most likely due to online streaming, this is a predictable sharp increases on the Hamburg and Munich POP[0] for DECIX. [0] https://www.de-cix.net/about/statistics/ (scroll a bit down)

More likely due to the release of iOS9. A couple of other European Internet exchanges also peaked last night [0]. In the past few years Apple have been embracing public peering much more - according to PeeringDB they are at 37 locations with many having multiple 100G connections. 0: https://stats.linx.net/aggregate.html

Post by Tepix » Thu, Sep 17, 2015, 12:34 PM UTC

jo909 wrote: post #18

rottyguy wrote: post #15

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How long does it take to transfer a gigabyte file? Sure we can do the math but why (considering the average person)? Maybe there should be a common core revolution in engineering :-)

I can't do the exact math for that without looking up up a bunch of stuff. I don't how much I need to subtract for the multiple headers and other overhead, how fast the transfer rate gets to the maximum, how many packages get lost, what other factors of the congestion control algorithms might impact my transfer etc

Post by hobofan » Thu, Sep 17, 2015, 1:02 PM UTC

logicallee wrote: post #23

porges wrote: post #16

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Something does seem funky. The website looked like this in 1997: http://web.archive.org/web/19970418234503id_/http://www.bath... [This page is 3,780 bytes.] In fact, you can find the server stats from back then: http://web.archive.org/web/19970822145424/http://www.bath.ac... This says that it transferred "3 599 Mbytes" and there were "728 506" requests. Interpreting "3 599" as 3.599 gives 4.94 bytes per request, whic…

it reads as if by order of magnitude jump you mean "megabyte to gigabyte" but (obviously, now that I point it out) that is 3 orders of magnitude jump!

Post by TranceMan » Thu, Sep 17, 2015, 1:06 PM UTC

Loic wrote: post #33

TranceMan wrote: post #24

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More likely due to the release of iOS9. A couple of other European Internet exchanges also peaked last night [0]. In the past few years Apple have been embracing public peering much more - according to PeeringDB they are at 37 locations with many having multiple 100G connections. 0: https://stats.linx.net/aggregate.html

If you look at the weekly statistics, you see the bump everyday. If iOS is putting a concentrated load on the network from 20h to 24h, they could redesign a bit their update system to spread a bit more during the day...