Doesn't really affect me because the bandwidth crunch is at the last
mile link to the customer.
That said, we do ~30Mbps of Akamai traffic over peering and every meg
we don't have to pay for is nice.
The trick to getting CDN stuff when you have low traffic volumes is
wait for someone big (huge
I just came across this article on Netflix's plans to start running
their own CDN. They're going to be offering free peering at a few
IXPs, and are offering free cache appliances for ISPs with large
amounts of traffic.
They require at least 2Gbps of Netflix traffic across your network at all
time and require you connect the box to a 10Gbps port to our network. I
really doubt there are many WISP's out there running this much Netflix
traffic at one time. A few but nowhere near the majority. Also, for many of
us,
. If I do the
same across the
Internet it will take 1.5279510989 zettabytes Talk about total
inefficiency!
---Original Message---
From: Darin Steffl
Date: 6/5/2012 9:22:49 AM
To: WISPA General List
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Netflix to offer free caches to ISPs
They require
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They require at least 2Gbps of Netflix traffic across your network at
all time and require you connect the box to a 10Gbps port to our
