Our friends in CIT have issued the following notice:
iOS 8, the next update for Apple iPhones and iPads, is over 2GB in size. It’s huge. It will be released tomorrow, Wednesday, September 17. We have hundreds of these Apple devices on campus. If any significant number of them all attempt to download their update at the same time, we are going to suffer a genuine case of network over-utilization.
We are looking at deploying a caching server to minimize some of this pain, but, realistically, the network, the Internet, wireless, it’s all going to be slow and painful for the next few days. Please don’t be surprised when things don’t behave as usual and perform below their usual standard.
Thanks!
