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CDNs have been doing this for years. It's nothing new!
by cbzoiav 8y ago
CDNs have been doing this for years. It's nothing new!
- pbhjpbhj 8y agoWhich other websites (or consumer media companies) have cabinets in ISPs arrive the globe; honestly I've only heard of Netflix doing it. So, are there CDNs without their own racks anywhere?
- cobookman 8y agoSome of Google's services. See "Edge nodes": https://peering.google.com/#/infrastructure https://peering.google.com/#/infrastructure
- jedberg 8y agoYouTube does, and a bunch of other sites do it by using Akamai, CloudFlare, Fastly, etc.
- pbhjpbhj 8y agoSo Akamai, CloudFlare et al. will locate servers in a large ISPs data centre. TIL, I just assumed once a resource had been cached then they'd effectively have that collocation (logically); I'm surprised if avoiding the cost of the first hit really saves anything for static content. Obviously anyone streaming video, it's different. I wonder if BBC iPlayer (major streaming service in UK) collocate with ISPs. Will those servers have a local (to the ISP) IP, or do the Akamai IPs get physically routed to the AS? Fascinating stuff.
- lscotte 8y agoIt is a CDN, but what's new is that the openconnect appliances are distributed not just in datacenters, but directly to ISPs. Traditional CDNs aren't in your ISP.
- pyvpx 8y agoAkamai would like to have a word with you
- ksec 8y agoDo Akamai has Servers right in ISP's DC / Network? I know they are within 1 hoops in lots of places, but never heard they are actually inside ISP's network, which is what Netflix OpenAppliance and Google Edge Node has done.
- jedberg 8y agoNetflix got the idea from Akamai. They are in your ISP for sure.