On 7/22/14, 1:08 PM, Derek Balling wrote:
These two together seem to get to the big question: What incentives to
various ISPs have to peer with each other in friendly ways? Why shouldn't
they fragment apart and compete for customers in non-interoperable ways?
Verizon *is* peering with L3 in a friendly way, they're simply saying "man, one of
your downstream customers is consuming a crapton of bandwidth and we're throttling them
so the rest of the traffic from you isn't impacted. And no, we're not inclined to upgrade
just to satisfy that one customer, because that customer is - in part - hell-bent on
attacking our other revenue streams."
And that -- to me anyway -- is a completely legitimate position for Verizon to
take.
If this is indeed what Verizon is doing, then there's really no
opportunity for them to complain when Netflix points the finger at
Verizon as the reason for poor streaming performance.
- Adam Compton
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