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My understanding is that Netflix will pretty much subsidize the cost of the CDN box to nearly any ISP above a certain minimum traffic level ingress from Netflix
by GhettoMaestro 7y ago
My understanding is that Netflix will pretty much subsidize the cost of the CDN box to nearly any ISP above a certain minimum traffic level ingress from Netflix.
Great model to attack the incumbent [transport / transit] carrier costs - end run around the middle-men and drop your CDN boxes directly at the edge (last-mile) ISPs.
- walrus01 7y agoISP here, the netflix cache appliance boxes (a single 1RU server is the minimum) are free, but you have to provide rack space, power and cooling for them. For an ISP in a place like a caribbean island it's a great idea because their upstream/IP transit rates are significantly higher than in the US48 states.