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Apple's solution: master iOS8 global push against your own CDN

Starting from September 17, Mac users around the world, ushering in a "holiday", the company started to iOS device, push the latest iOS8 operating system, the constant flow of data, transferred to various countries millions of iOS devices.

In a short time on the Internet so data-transmission, and traditionally separated from the content delivery network (CDN) operator's help. However, according to the United States sci-tech news site AppleInsider reported that pushes the upgrade iOS8, basically all Apple building its own content distribution network, which starts a new business and Apple's history.

United States areas of content distribution network company DeepField (mainly engaged in Internet traffic monitoring) Chief Executive Officer Craig Labovitz (CraigLabovitz) that the apples into the CDN sector, it is of great significance.

Craig Labovitz said: "Apple is not just a software company, not just a personal computer manufacturing company, they own the Internet backbone, Internet infrastructure, and established its own existence. ”

DeepField monitor, push iOS8 starting from September 17, the vast majority of data transfer task, done by Apple's own content distribution network. This is Apple's first time in the history of his own CDN, complete weapons systems upgrades.

It was reported that in the past when you upgrade the iOS system, Apple pushing tasks, data transmission systems, professional outsource to Akamai's content distribution network operators to complete. However, Apple has now decided to become self-reliant.

DeepField also noted that Akamai's still bear a small fraction of iOS8 data transfer tasks.

Monitoring according to this company, iOS8-intensive push, data transmission to the Internet has also brought a spike in many networks, data traffic increased by a factor of 10 to 20 times. The company's analysts, iOS8 push in the Internet backbone networks, bandwidth occupied by 3Tbps.

It was reported that Apple's ability to build their own CDN, external maintained a low profile, said the business in July, the earliest start, but data transmission is mainly responsible for Apple's smaller tasks, when people in the industry say, Apple's iTunes digital content delivery and streaming music still will be entrusted to companies such as Akamai, Level3.

Build their own content delivery network relies on deployments in data centers around the world. According to foreign media reports, this year, Apple has been acceleration in global construction or leasing data center, alleged that Apple is working on Latin America Caribbean Curacao (Curacao) to build data centers, Apple is also expanding United States Nevada's large data centers.

Meanwhile in China, Apple also announced that it will lease Telecom data center, mainly to protect cloud storage services.