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Fishy. From Slackerboy @reddit: > Yeah I have seen the peering agreements with L3 and Comcast, > this story is complete BS. > >> Before Level 3 Communi
by alecco 16y ago
Fishy. From Slackerboy @reddit:
> Yeah I have seen the peering agreements with L3 and Comcast,
> this story is complete BS.
>
>> Before Level 3 Communications landed the Netflix CDN deal,
>> it sent approximately the same amount of traffic to Comcast
>> as it received.
>
> This is a flat out lie, end consumer networks like Comcast ALWAYS
> receive FAR more traffic then they send. Note how you get something
> like 5 megs down and 1 meg up... wonder why? Because as an end
> user you are not allowed to run any servers or serve any services.
>
> When you request a YouTube video you send maybe 20KB up stream
> and receive 50-200MB back. Comcast has NEVER had more then 5%
> upstream.
>
> I am smelling a Comcast fed story here.
http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/edxjp/level_3_outbid_akamai_on_netflix_by_reselling/c17dvwd http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/edxjp/level_3_ou...
- meroliph 16y agoIt's wrong to assume that Comcast does not send a lot of upstream traffic. They actually sell IP transit at relatively small prices.
- alecco 16y agoThey have about 16 million users of broadband asymmetric access. I doubt any IP transit sold would balance that. It'd be nice to see real numbers instead of conjectures.
- calloc 16y agoComcast is also a transit provider, much like Cox. For example Atjeu located in Phoenix has Cox as their major transit provider. So don't be so quick to dismiss this fact.