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maxhou
12y ago
To customer houses ? How many CDNs do they have ? Take "last mile" literally and divide the US in a big grid of 1x1 mile squares. If Netflix was able to dispatch its traffic up to each of these squares, there wouldn't be any
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maxhou
12y ago
It may not has to do with it today , but it will tomorrow. As I said, generating traffic is easy. If there is no drawbacks in raising streaming bandwidth on Netflix side, they will continue to do so, 4k streaming, multiple streams per acco
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maxhou
12y ago
Generating traffic is easy. Routing each bit to customer houses is the difficult part. The offer to put Netflix's servers in a Comcast data center does not help.
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maxhou
13y ago
Thanks for taking the ISP POV for one second. Keep in mind that generating traffic is nowadays really easy. For 50k$, you can buy 50 servers with 2x10Gb cards, and generate a constant 1 terabit per second of video streaming data. No month