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10 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 reali
by iptrans 6y ago
10 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.