Re: [nznog] Akamai Questions

I've seen this also.. even on cached items I see download rates of at most 500Kbyte/sec - is there a limit on throughput for even cached items? Via another cache on APE - I can hit speeds in the Mbytes/sec Cheers Craig Spiers | Network Manager Solarix Networks Limited DDI: +64 9 974 4753 | Mob: +64 21 857 183 | Office: +64 9 974 4750 | FAX: +64 9 974 4760 Email: craig.spiers(a)solarix.co.nz | Web: www.solarix.net.nz CAUTION: This email is confidential. If it is not intended for you please do not read, distribute or copy it or any attachments. Please notify the sender by return email and delete the original message and any attachments.Any views expressed in this email may be those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of Solarix Networks Limited. Please consider the environment before printing this email! Disclaimer added by CodeTwo Exchange Rules http://www.codetwo.com -----Original Message----- From: nznog-bounces(a)list.waikato.ac.nz [mailto:nznog-bounces(a)list.waikato.ac.nz] On Behalf Of Don Stokes Sent: Thursday, 15 July 2010 1:18 p.m. To: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: Re: [nznog] Akamai Questions Hi Ian, Patrick, We've had some fairly major problems with the Callplus Akamai cache in the past, especially with a customer of ours that makes heavy use of Apple developer resources -- these tend to have relatively little use, so the customer was often getting un-cached items, and performance of those downloads, frankly, sucked. If we got a cached item, it roared down. But if un-cached, they were experiencing sub-megabit download rates. Downloading beta OS distributions was so bad that they were downloading at home (via a different cache) and bringing them in on a flash stick. Akamai support was, uh, unhelpful. I'm being diplomatic. Now, I haven't had a complaint for a while. I don't know if that's just because the customer has learned to live with it knowing there's not a lot I can do, or if things have genuinely improved. -- don On 07/15/2010 12:21 PM, Ian Batterbee wrote:

Futher to my message below, uh, it seems there were some uh.. problems

with the config after some BGP changes some time ago. I believe this has now been fixed, and we're now advertising approximately 2000 prefixes learned through APE towards Akamai's quagga box.

I guess this should put an end to the discussion about setting up an APE-connected Akamai cluster.

On 15 July 2010 10:23, Ian Batterbee mailto:ibatterb(a)gmail.com> wrote:

On 14 July 2010 15:31, Lincoln Reid mailto:lincoln(a)acsdata.co.nz> wrote:

Ideally someone from Callplus could chirp in here and clarify if they are feeding all the prefixes they learn at APE on to Akamai, or if there is a static list that will become out of date etc.

We set a community on anything we learn from APE, and send everything that has that community to Akamai. If someone can identify a particular route that isn't working as expected, let me know and I'll have a look.

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