On Dec 27, 2012, at 13:19 , randal k <na...@data102.com> wrote: > I work at a datacenter in southern Colorado that is the upstream bandwidth > provider for several regional ISPs. We have been investigating our > ever-growing bandwidth usage and have found that out of transits > (Level3,Cogent,HE) that Netflix always seems to come in via Hurricane > Electric. (We move ~1.4gbps to Netflix, and are thus not a candidate for > peering. And they have no POP close.)
Your statement about peering makes no sense. You are trying to engineer where their traffic comes and yet you refuse to have a direct connection which would give you full control? Weird....... > I tested this by advertising a /24 across all providers, then selectively > removed the advertisement to certain carriers to see where the bandwidth > goes. In order, it appears that if there is a HE route, Netflix uses it, > period. If there isn't, it prefers Level3, and Cogent comes last. Completely unsurprising. > Since Netflix is a big hunk of our bandwidth (and obviously makes our > customers happy), we are included to buy some more HE. However, if Netflix > decides that they want to randomly switch to, say, Cogent, we may be under > a year-long bandwidth contract that isn't particularly valuable anymore. > > With all of that, I am interested in finding out of any knowledge about > Netflix transit preferences, be it inside information, anecdotal, or > otherwise. I did email peering@ but haven't heard back, thus the public > question. Why don't you ask Netflix? And why not ask them for kit to put on-net? <https://signup.netflix.com/openconnect> -- TTFN, patrick