Here is a paper that looks into how Akamai directs traffic:
http://www.aqualab.cs.northwestern.edu/publications/Ajsu06DBA.pdf
When selecting providers, you could look at
http://www.akamai.com/peering/ and http://bgp.he.net/AS20940#_peers to
try to select someone that is close to Akamai.
Beyond that there isn't a lot that you can use to make it go over the
cheapest pipe.
You could try announcing more specific routes over your cheap provider
to ensure that it attracts more traffic, but that could end up
attracting too much traffic.
On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Matt lm7...@gmail.com wrote:
How does Akamai determine which server/IP to stream a netflix movie
from? Suppose you peer with a couple providers and you want it to go
over the cheapest or biggest pipe?
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