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He's referring to NetFlix being a customer of Level3, not the end user being a customer of Comcast. NetFlix uses enough bandwidth that they'd have direct deals
by qeorge 16y ago
He's referring to NetFlix being a customer of Level3, not the end user being a customer of Comcast. NetFlix uses enough bandwidth that they'd have direct deals with Tier 1 providers like Level3.
- run4yourlives 16y agoI get that, but Netflix and Level3 not only just signed a major agreement, they have similar interests. Level3 should have attempted to sign Netflix up for this fight and point the issue squarely at the consumer.. A big "You can't get Netflix because you are on Comcast" or "It now costs you $20 a movie because you are on Comcast" frames the battle back into Level3's favor. All they did by backing down was show Comcast that they will back down when challenged again. You beat a bully by fighting him.
- dedward 16y agoThat creates a real net neutrality issue, wheras the simple issue of rather imbalanced peers doesn't. Free peering only works, and is only reasonably fair as long as traffis is, on average, about equal. If one network is really genreating 5x the traffic of another, why would the smaller one take the hit fo free?
- ewrwerf 16y agoThey would have if they set up their own network. However It would cost way too much money for them, that's why they only use CDNs and now they moved from datacenters to amazon cloud.