Hello, > Providing access is mostly fixed costs, as there are very few consumables in > running a network. > > IP transit costs aren't an issue, since Netflix will do settlement free > peering. > > This leaves the internal network of SK Telecom as the problem and cost > center.
Even with that. Netflix can also host at their point of presence their proxies. Remember the proxies can push up to 400Gbps of stuff with about 500W of power. So even if they have issues in their network this is their job to make the things done correctly. Paying just the electricity bill for a bunch of server is less expensive than buying several 100G long haul links. That's a point and this is their problems if those guys didn't wanted a cache in their network. Regards, Xavier
