On 7/11/14 11:20 AM, Blake Hudson wrote: > > Verizon Policy Blog wrote: > >> There was, however, congestion at the interconnection link to the >> edge of our network (the border router) used by the transit providers >> chosen by Netflix to deliver video traffic to Verizon’s network. > > In what world does Netflix choose a transit provider into someone > else's network? I'm pretty sure that Verizon chooses who it peers with > and how it announces BGP prefixes. This means that Verizon is largely > in control of traffic engineering at its borders. If one of those > transit providers is congested, this is something Verizon, as a > responsible network operator, is surely aware of and has the > capability to resolve. This is difficult, if even possible, for a > source network operator to work around.
CDN's choose which exit the use all the time, it's kinda the raison de etré. If a pop has 174 3356 2914 7992 transit(s) chances are they can use any one of them or all of them to get to foo other large transit as. > > This post is complete technical FUD. > > --Blake >
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