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Apple's Content Distribution Network can easily fill a school's Internet pipe when students start downloading apps from the App Store.

I have created some bandwidth shaping pools with target some Akamai download server IPs to throttle how much App STore downloads can use, and this has helped.

But I think there may be other CDN sources that the App Store might be using.

Does anybody have any suggestions for limiting the amount of bandwidth the App Store downloads are using?

iOS or Mac?

If mac maybe http://www.amsys.co.uk/2012/blog/os-x-server-caching-service/#.UjDAfhm9LCQ

No, this is for iOS. I know there are some tools coming down the road with iOS7 in regards to a caching server, but I really want the control at the Internet pipe regardless.

Also, that won't fix our problem for at least a month from now.

The fast fix is if you can limit client based session bandwidth. Our org does this via firewall.

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