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Biggest CDN charge $9 per 1TB of transfer... how is watching 20TB per month worth less than netflix fee so that they actually make some profit?

• jtmcmc 9y ago
  at the scale netflix transfers data they pay much much less than this. They also do direct peering and will put boxes in your ISP datacenter - https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/ https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/
  • joering2 9y ago
    Im sorry it still doesnt make sense to me. "buy 1 tone of fish pay $10 per kg", "buy 10,000 tone of fish, pay 1 cent". Doesnt make sense!! At some point more is not that much cheaper. I doubt coming back to my CDN asking for price on 1,000 TB would bring price to 1 cent per TB.
    • svachalek 9y ago
      Would it help to say OpenConnect is the CDN?
    • JetSpiegel 9y ago
      If they have a box in your ISP with a cache of the content, those Gigabits are coming from a a LAN and are basically free, only limited by the infrastructure.
      • joering2 9y ago
        I see. So how can I bypass my CDN and put box with my own content inside ISP ?
        • jtmcmc 9y ago
          have something on that box that lots of the ISPs customers use so that it lets the ISP serve the content easily and for free to their clients
• jonknee 9y ago
  Netflix is the single largest bandwidth user in the world, they don't pay list prices.
• kondro 9y ago
  I really doubt people are watching 30+ hours of video per day per user (ca. 1TB/month).