Overall Netflix bandwidth usage numbers on a network?

Joel Jaeggli joelja at bogus.com
Mon Dec 12 03:21:49 UTC 2011


Netflix uses CDNs for content delivery and the platform runs in EC2. What would peering with them achieve?

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On Dec 11, 2011, at 18:06, Faisal Imtiaz <faisal at snappydsl.net> wrote:

> Which leads to a question to be asked...
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> Is netflix willing to peer directly with ISP / NSP's ?
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> Regards.
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> Faisal Imtiaz
> Snappy Internet&  Telecom
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> On 12/11/2011 7:29 PM, Dave Temkin wrote:
>> Feel free to contact peering at netflix<dot>com - we're happy to provide you with delivery statistics for traffic terminating on your network.
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>> Regards,
>> -Dave Temkin
>> Netflix
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>> On 12/7/11 8:57 AM, Blake Hudson wrote:
>>> Yeah, that's an interesting one. We currently utilize netflow for this, but you also need to consider that netflix streaming is just port 80 www traffic. Because netflix uses CDNs, its difficult to pin down the traffic to specific hosts in the CDN and say that this traffic was netflix, while this traffic was the latest windows update (remember this is often a shared hosting platform). We've done our own testing and have come to a good solution which uses a combination of nbar, packet marking, and netflow to come to a conclusion. On a ~160Mbps link, netflix peaks out between 30-50Mbps around 8-10PM each evening. The rest of the traffic is predominantly other forms of HTTP traffic (including other video streaming services).
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>>> Martin Hepworth wrote the following on 12/3/2011 2:36 AM:
>>>> Also checkout Adrian Cockcroft presentations on their architecture which
>>>> describes how they use aws and CDns etc
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>>>> Martin
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