On 7/14/14 10:06 AM, Rubens Kuhl wrote: >> If Netflix were a good citizen, it would (a) let ISPs cache content; (b) >> pay them >> equitably for direct connections (smaller and more remote ISPs have higher >> costs >> per customer and should get MORE per account than Comcast, rather than >> receiving >> nothing); and (c) work with ISPs to develop updated technology that makes >> streaming >> more efficient. Bandwidth is expensive, and unicast streaming without >> caching is by >> far the most inefficient conceivable way of delivering "fat" content to >> the consumer. >> > I noted most of the discussion seems to point to Internet bandwidth as a > cost factor to ISPs, but I wonder what's the impact of Netflix on access > network costs ? They might be harder to measure or directly correlate to > streaming usage, but for non-wired networks (which is usually the case in > rural networks), this impact sounds more harmful to me than uplink costs. if your customer buys 20, needs 6 and gets 4 I guess that's problem, if the customer buys 2 and needs 4 that's a different one... It's politically inconvenient to assign blame to third parties for the provisioned capacity of the last mile network. > > Rubens >
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