I find it hard to believe that Netflix isn't already using some sort of CDN.
https://www.netflix.com/openconnect so they are, kind of. On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 10:21 PM, Mark Bergman <berg...@panix.com> wrote: > > > On July 29, 2014 6:41:45 PM EDT, David Lang <da...@lang.hm> wrote: > => On Mon, 28 Jul 2014, Paul Graydon wrote: > => > => > On 07/28/14 11:02, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) wrote: > => >>> From: discuss-boun...@lists.lopsa.org [mailto:discuss- > => >>> boun...@lists.lopsa.org] On Behalf Of Leon Towns-von Stauber > > => > => And as it has also been pointed out, Netflix controls the software at > => both ends > => of the connection and the inbound side of it's servers is pretty > => idle, so it > => could easily cause the clients to spew traffic back to the servers, > => "improving" > => the ratio, but the only benefit would be the game the > => inbound/outbound ratio, it > => would actually harm the Internet overall. > => > => They could probably push the ratio above 1:1 as a lot of people have > => uplinks > => that are faster than the max downlink speeds that Netflic provides. > => > > > Hmmm... I wonder about re-architecting Netflix so that each customer > caches their downloaded content and serves it P2P within the same ISP > network...now that content from Netflix doesn't cross any peering points. > > Lots of possible problems, but it's an interesting exercise. > > Mark > > => > => David Lang > > > -- > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.lopsa.org > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ >
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