I thought the same thing 10 years ago when I worked there. At the time management was not interested in losing focus on doing anything other than streaming mov

I thought the same thing 10 years ago when I worked there. At the time management was not interested in losing focus on doing anything other than streaming movies to customers. But it should be noted that the FreeBSD Openconnect boxes are highly optimized to Netflix's use case. Which is serving a predefined set of content that has been pre-rendered. Youtube and its ilk are a completely different use case. The Netflix cache is so optimized for serving Netflix movies that for many years we still used Akamai for all of our other CDN needs, but it looks like they may have finally moved that to Netflix's own CDN now.