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As far as "neighborhood full of Linux enthusiasts", the service area is the whole city, though buildout is still in its infancy. Population is ~170K. Netflix
by linsomniac 6y ago
As far as "neighborhood full of Linux enthusiasts", the service area is the whole city, though buildout is still in its infancy. Population is ~170K.
Netflix does have a program where you can submit to get them to ship you a CDN box. I might submit that if I do this, but I doubt they want those in a residence, even if it is 10gig connected. Maybe for a year or two until the municipal provider gets their "data center" space up.
- iptrans 6y ago10 Gbps connectivity is on the smaller side for a Netflix appliance. They won’t even talk to you unless you are doing 5 Gbps of traffic from them. A more realistic plan is to have the muni ISP peer with Netflix at the closest IX and take it from there after traffic levels rise over 5 Gbps.
- linsomniac 6y agoThat's probably the plan longer term, but the nearest IX is probably 60 miles of fiber away, and the muni is padding as fast as it can to just build the network. While they don't have a data center, I presume they do have a place they could put a Netflix box. But that was the closest I know of for running a CDN node. As I said, seems unlikely...
- iptrans 6y ago60 miles isn't that far. If you can get some dark fiber you can go the full distance with one hop using off the shelf optics. Not that you are particularly hard up for connectivity. Fort Collins is on the old Level3 network so you should have no problem getting transport, waves or dark fiber to the Denver IX. Or you could just buy IP transit at the local PoP.