Explaining network connections you see frequenty

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Deploy.akamaitechnologies.com

Akamai technologies is a CDN[1], one that tries to be smart about sending you to the nearest host with the given content(verify).


Largish downloads from it are likely to be one of:

  • Windows Update (updates can be quite noticable traffic)
  • video streaming (from e.g. BBC or Apple)
  • or some site that uses it for CDN purposes (e.g. amazon, ebay, other).


reverse.softlayer.com

Something like 174.36.30.20-static.reverse.softlayer.com

Softlayer is a CDN that various other sites use.

Things that use softlayer:

1e100.net

Google, including:

  • Youtube videos
  • Google Earth content
  • Firefox "safe browsing", which checks with google (and is enabled by default)
  • Google updater (may have installed with some google product), and updates for things like chrome
  • google mail
  • Google talk(verify)

S3

Amazon's object storage

Various installed programs use S3. For example, dropbox uses it for file storage.

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