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Google has huge interconnect and exchange deals and dark fiber all over the place. It’s hard to explain just how much free transit and connect Google has to ISP
by datahack 2y ago
Google has huge interconnect and exchange deals and dark fiber all over the place. It’s hard to explain just how much free transit and connect Google has to ISPs, and how preferable their deals are for delivery. They are a MASSIVE pipe of extremely low cost Internet.
Since the main cost of video is streaming and the pipe required to deliver that streaming, they have an insane moat built because of it.
That is why. There are a lot of other explanations, but that is really why.
- dumpHero2 2y agoWhat’s dark fiber?
- wolfwyrd 2y agoIt's fiber interconnect between sites that is not actively visible to other people who are routing data around the world. Think of it as being pre-layed but not yet turned on/made available. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_fibre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_fibre
- datahack 2y agoThank you! I missed the question and appreciate you providing the info.