On Tue, 22 Jul 2014, Josh Smift wrote:
DB> Can you, say, name some other examples of companies who peer with
DB> Verizon and send as much traffic their way? Because what's congested
DB> is the peering point, the actual interconnect between Verizon and
DB> Netflix. So, what other content providers are streaming the same
DB> quantity of traffic to VZN as Netflix is, and doing so without issue?
It seems to me like this problem is complicated by the fact that Netflix
isn't a Verizon customer.
If Netflix is paying Level 3 for an X Gbps pipe, and sending X Gbps
through it, no one has a problem with that. The issue is that Level 3 is
sending X Gbps Netflix's traffic to Verizon; and Verizon doesn't want to
receive that traffic?
What would Verzion think if it wasn't one big easy-to-spot company, but
instead millions of individuals sending lots of traffic to Verizon through
their connection to Level 3?
If Level 3 is sending too much traffic to Verizon, this seems like an
L3/VZN problem, with basically nothing to do with Netflix -- even if the
traffic is 100% from Netflix, that is literally none of Verizon's
business. (If they want it to be their business, they can go try to sell
connectivity directly to Netflix.)
I think this is a key point. If this traffic wasn't from one site, but was from
many sites, would Verizon be justified in doing this?
David Lang
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