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? > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
