Doing a little network test and ran a traceroute to apple.com:
$ sudo tcptraceroute apple.com Selected device ppp0, address 172.17.152.110, port 55167 for outgoing packets Tracing the path to apple.com (17.149.160.49) on TCP port 80 (HTTP), 30 hops max 1 xxx.xx.xx.xx 12.847 MS 12.899 MS 13.736 MS 2 xxx.xx.xx.xx 14.734 MS 14.966 MS 16.143 MS 3 10.255.12.45 14.335 MS 14.712 MS 13.902 MS 4 10.253.44.242 14.992 MS 14.204 MS 13.693 MS 5 velocity-engine.com (17.149.160.49) [open] 14.639 MS 17.666 MS 15.295 MS
Check out that last host. Velocity Engine was part of the marketing for AltiVec in the late 90’s early 2000’s. Curious that Apple is re-purposing that.