On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Miles Fidelman <mfidel...@meetinghouse.net > wrote: > > From another list, I think this puts it nicely (for those of you who don't > know Brett, he's been running a small ISP for years http://www.lariat.net/ > ) > > -------- > > Netflix generates huge amounts of wasteful, redundant traffic and then > refuses to allow ISPs to correct this inefficiency via caching. It fails to > provide adequate bandwidth for its traffic to ISPs' "front doors" and then > blames their downstream networks when in fact they are more than adequate. > It exercises market power over ISPs (one of the first questions asked by > every customer who calls us is, "How well do you stream Netflix?") in an > attempt to force them to host their servers for free and to build out > network connections for which it should be footing the bill. (Netflix told > us that, if we wanted to improve streaming performance, we should pay > $10,000 per month for a dedicated link, spanning nearly 1,000 miles, to one > of its "peering points" -- just to serve it and no other streaming > provider.) It then launches misleading PR campaigns against ISPs that dare > to object to this behavior. > > --Brett Glass
As I see it, Netflix seem to have provided a reasonable set of options to provide data to an ISP's customers: - Over a certain volume, they'll provide caches to be hosted within the eyeball AS - Under that volume, you can pick it up via peering IXes - If you don't peer with them anywhere, you can get it via transit The complaint here seems to be that Netflix won't build out to any/every/many smaller locations and/or pay to have their caches hosted. Appreciate that there may be different views, but I'd say Netflix provide a reasonable set of options here for the smaller ISP. I'd have thought factoring in the assorted costs to access Netflix content (building to a mutual peering IX vs. transit vs. the cost to run a local cache) would fall into the standard sort of analysis you'd make running an ISP same as when assessing if it makes sense to hosts a Google or Akamai cache. Sam
