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We give companies like Netflix and Akamai free access to space and power in our facilities and they provide their own content servers. We don’t make mone
by panarky 12y ago
We give companies like Netflix and Akamai free access to space
and power in our facilities and they provide their own content
servers.
We don’t make money from peering or colocation; since people
usually only stream one video at a time, video traffic doesn’t
bog down or change the way we manage our network in any meaningful
way — so why not help enable it?
But we also don’t charge because it’s really a win-win-win situation.
It’s good for content providers because they can deliver really
high-quality streaming video to their customers... It’s good
for us because it saves us money (it’s easier to transport video
traffic from a local server than it is to transport it thousands
of miles). But most importantly, we do this because it gives
Fiber users the fastest, most direct route to their content.