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Seven years in the life of Hypergiants' off-nets

• jacknews 4y ago
  I didn't know 'Hypergiant' and 'off-net' were the correct academic terms, but if I understand correctly, this is basically about eg Netflix installing a netflix content streaming server at your ISP. It seems to make perfect sense for them to do so, especially for relatively static content, IMHO. It's a neat trick to scan the certificates to out these servers, but I'm not really convinced these 'deployments change the structure of the internet'.
  • aaron695 4y ago
    > I didn't know 'Hypergiant' and 'off-net' were the correct academic terms Hypergiant is a coolification of "Hyper Giant" from here - https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/1851182.1851194 https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/1851182.1851194 (2010) It's cited so that means it's true. I guess it's what we call it now.
  • tatersolid 4y ago
    I’d argue private caches and peering have changed the “structure of the internet”. Previously such investments would have been made by large telco and “backbone” providers instead, with the traffic originator footing the bill. The private CDN model is clearly more efficient than paying the likes of Verizon to lay more fiber.
    • sophacles 4y ago
      Peering, the mechansism that allows INTER-communications between NETworks has changed the structure of the Internet?