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Can someone explain to me why edge servers do not have all of the terrible effects of non-net-neutrality? ISPs install edge servers that result in faster servic
by woah 10y ago
Can someone explain to me why edge servers do not have all of the terrible effects of non-net-neutrality? ISPs install edge servers that result in faster service for content from some providers. Maybe they charge for them. Maybe they also charge for a leased line from the content provider's data center. They can of course do this for their own content as a way of utilizing their monopoly power. Why hasn't the sky fallen already?
- forgottenpass 10y agoBecause, generally speaking, the end users currently have an internet connection with the capacity and (relative lack of) traffic discrimination to pull that content over the internet. If the boxes collocated at an ISP broke today, the data would flow to users from distant data centers. All that would happen is the ISP and the content provider might end up paying a little more in network costs. The edge servers in the ISP network would only have the same non-network-neutrality effects if the ISP offered a string-and-soup-can connection to the internet that could not support the service. The fear is - as it's always been - the ISP's ability to make a remote service effectively unavailable to their customers.