In addition to Open Connect, which is awesome and kind of mirrors what Cable companies are already doing for On-Demand stuff from what I understand, Netflix is also looking into peer-to-peer network to get around ISPs slowing down their traffic:
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/04/netflix-researching-large-scale-peer-to-peer-technology-for-streaming/ -- David Risner Software Engineer MERLOT, California State University On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 7:26 PM, Eastick, Doug <[email protected]> wrote: > While netflix has been in the media on net neutrality, etc.... I have > always been a TCP/IP internet geek. > Over a year ago I learned that netflix was promoting some hardware that > would get stored/sync'd data closer to customers at ISP locations - they > called it OpenConnect. If your netflix says "SuperHD" on some content, > then you are close enough (internet hop-wise) to an OpenConnect box. > > https://www.netflix.com/openconnect > > Netflix will provide a rack-mounted server with 100 TB (terabytes!!!) of > fresh content pre-loaded, plus 1 GB of solid-state-drive (SSD) drives. I > have no idea what the commerical agreement is; but its freaking drooly wrt > hardware. > > I just read the deployment guide for it. not too technical (in my mind, > but I'm an geeky engineer that loves TCP/IP stuff :) ). > > http://oc.nflxvideo.net/docs/OpenConnect-Deployment-Guide.pdf > > long story short - brilliant use of Open Source software (FreeBSD, nginx, > others) for network efficiency; and my teenage kids don't have any clue > how it all works :) > > > > yeah, yeah, I know this isn't the forum for tech stuff. But everyone on > this list loves the content :) . So click a couple of the above links to > appreciate what all the geeks do for you. Reminds me of a joke: my 21-yr > old son just graduated from Engineering.... there was a Nursing / > Engineering prom (traditionally) and the MC said "well, all you female > nursing students... if you can't find a real man, then you should find an > Engineer". I like to think that my wife found both. > > /doug > > > -- > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
