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Great link. The revelation for me: On-premise gear specific to upstream sources -- Netflix, Google -- turns out to be a business requirement. So NG are more e
by everybodyknows 9y ago
Great link.
The revelation for me: On-premise gear specific to upstream sources -- Netflix, Google -- turns out to be a business requirement. So NG are more effectively natural monopolies than we might have guessed. Unhappy implications for small WISPs, and for smaller video sites -- Vimeo.
- pavs 9y agoI would Akamai Nodes at the same level. A lot of times large sites leverage on Akamai infrastructure for distribution/CDN. Facebook heavily relied on Akamai (esp outside the USA) for a long time, I don't if they still do it. Youtube's very first live streaming of any type (I think it was a concert) was done on Akamai network. Akamai was and still is a very big player. Facebook also has their on-promise nodes, but I don't think they are as ubiquitous.