And that's backfired for Verizon a little bit. Think about it this way. Verizon is now a CDN: they have to get as much peering as they want. Verizon (as701) the

And that's backfired for Verizon a little bit. Think about it this way. Verizon is now a CDN: they have to get as much peering as they want. Verizon (as701) the big eyeball network has no plans to peer openly. It complicates peering negotiations because edgecast (separate asn) can't give up the access that everyone wants to Verizon. Similar happened when tata (old teleglobe) bought bitgravity cdn and constrained their peering relationships.