[TranceMan]

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

[Loic]

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...

[TranceMan]

It's not that easy.

The peak at that European time is due to people getting home to unrestricted Internet access - which means their device can phone home and update.

I don't believe in coincidences ;)

[threeseed]

But Apple uses Akamai as their CDN.

I always assumed given its age and role that it would have the best peering bar none.

[TranceMan]

They have built their own CDN - http://blog.streamingmedia.com/2014/02/apple-building-cdn-so...