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Thursday, October 13, 2011

postheadericon iOS 5 update causes massive web traffic spike

iOS 5 update for iPhone and iPad puts enormous pressure on Apple's servers icloud new, leading to delays for many users

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Apple iPhone and Mac software to enable its IST "icloud" Services caused to occur in huge Internet traffic in Europe.

flow in the UK jumped by 200 gigabits per second - equivalent to more than one fifth of normal traffic - a peak which lasts about four hours

huge demand, which was reflected in the world as the update from the servers of the company Became available at 1800 BST on Wednesday, has been the most severe constraint on the system clouds that Steve Jobs announced in his last major speech in June

demand led to delays for many Try to download the software, then errors like tried to connect their systems to Apple's servers, which had to check the update on each device .

The download test was more severe servers Apple will have to endure as much as millions of owners of iPhone and iPad able to run the new software tried to access it.

ute, the transition to IOS5 icloud and that should mean in future Apple rushes avoid such huge demand. Future versions of the software can be downloaded "over the air", so it will be able to survey the deployment of new software updates for iPhone and iPad on a country by country, or other order for easy loading.

IOS5 The updated software brings several changes, many of them make it in direct competition with Google's Android: it introduces a system-wide "notifications" of the system and over-the- air update, both of which are already in Android.
ute, does not IOS5 - as seems to have expected a certain value - the "Siri" assistant speech recognition: if it was previously available as a free application for iPhone 3G up there is now available on iPhone 4S, which goes on sale on Friday.

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