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This is a lot of how the major ISPs smooth out the peering situation, they also offer colocation and carrier hotel services to large customers. Unfortunately, t
by jcrawfordor 7y ago
This is a lot of how the major ISPs smooth out the peering situation, they also offer colocation and carrier hotel services to large customers. Unfortunately, the popularity of Netflix and other streaming services has largely upset this balance and it's very hard for any ISP to keep traffic equality.
- Scoundreller 7y agoAt least with Netflix, you can get their Appliances and cut your inbound Netflix bandwidth by 80%+ for the cost of power and 4U.
- iptrans 7y agoYeah, if you have at least 5 Gbps of Netflix traffic on your network... No small or startup ISP is going to qualify for a Netflix appliance. Also to cut your Netflix bandwidth by 80+%, you need more than 6 Gbps of Netflix traffic, as Netflix requires 1.2 Gbps of inbound bandwidth just to fill the cache. Netflix share of Internet traffic is about 15-20%, so in practice Netflix appliances are used by ISPs with 25-35 Gbps of bandwidth and up. This means ISPs with tens of thousands of subscribers or more.