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> Now that my ISP bundles Netflix subscription into their internet plans, access to netflix and fast.com now practically saturate the fiber link They may have
by dspillett 4y ago
> Now that my ISP bundles Netflix subscription into their internet plans, access to netflix and fast.com now practically saturate the fiber link
They may have an ISP-local netflix cache, from Netflix themselves not some home-grown hack, so they can achieve that with some reliability without it costing as much as it otherwise would for bandwidth peering.
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- tiedieconderoga 4y agoNetflix distributes "red boxes" to ISPs which are exactly that: edge content caches. (PDF): https://openconnect.netflix.com/Open-Connect-Briefing-Paper.pdf https://openconnect.netflix.com/Open-Connect-Briefing-Paper....