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BGP peering is expensive. It's especially expensive when you have $encrypted_internet_video_provider which is almost entirely unidirectional data flow with zero
by danjoc 9y ago
BGP peering is expensive. It's especially expensive when you have $encrypted_internet_video_provider which is almost entirely unidirectional data flow with zero caching possible. $encrypted_internet_video_provider wants the FCC, which has debatable authority on the matter, to instruct ISPs to pay for the bill of accepting that bandwidth on the networks ISPs own. In the case of cable company ISPs, bearing that cost to the benefit of a direct competitor.
If $encrypted_internet_video_provider wants to dictate how traffic is routed on a network, perhaps they should buy their own network.
As an example, Apple has over $200Billion stashed away in overseas accounts avoiding taxes. They could just buy Comcast, which has a market cap of $181Billion. Then it's their network, and they can run it however they see fit.
I bet Apple would rather have Comcast deal with the messy business of handling customer support for millions of boomers who can't "program" their VCR, while Apple siphons all the profits from online video streaming. That sounds a lot cheaper to owning and operating the networks themselves.
- mindslight 9y agoYou've left out that the ISPs are being paid by their customers, for receiving the data from $encrypted_internet_video_provider on the customer's behalf! If the ISPs don't want to be in the business of carrying data, then the answer is very simple - get out of the business and give back all that infrastructure that was built out with public resources!
- maxxxxx 9y agoI thought I am paying Comcast for making a certain bandwidth to me? Isn't that the deal?
- danjoc 9y agoYou get that now. What $encrypted_internet_video_provider wants is a special fast lane directly into the ISPs' networks... at the ISPs expense, of course. Small time video hosting service will enter through the regular lanes. The fast lane will belong to the big boys. It's the opposite of the 'level playing field' argument that $encrypted_internet_video_provider is making. NN all basically comes down to who pays for the fast lane. $encrypted_internet_video_provider says, "Net neutrality! You pay half." ISP says, "It's a fast lane that only you use, and all the traffic is in one direction. You want it, you pay for it."