Netflix To Cogent To World
Phil Rosenthal
pr at isprime.com
Wed Jul 23 17:09:05 UTC 2014
With this war of blog posts — perhaps Netflix should ask this question:
Who can we buy transit from who has sufficient peering capacity to reach Comcast’s and Verizon’s customers?
-P
On Jul 23, 2014, at 1:00 PM, Adam Rothschild <asr at latency.net> wrote:
> I think the confusion by Jay and others is that there is a plethora of commercial options available for sending traffic to Comcast or Verizon, at scale and absent congestion. I contend that there is not.
>
> I, too, have found Netflix highly responsive and professional, as a peering partner...
>
> $0.02,
> -a
>
> On Jul 23, 2014, at 11:31 AM, Bob Evans <bob at FiberInternetCenter.com> wrote:
>
>> Most likely Netflix writes policies to filter known cogent conflict
>> peers...Chances are they use cogent to reach the cogent customer base and
>> other peers. I know from experience that peering directly with Netflix
>> works very well....they don't depend heavily on transit delivery if direct
>> peering is possible.
>>
>> Thank You
>> Bob Evans
>> CTO
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>> If I were Netflix, why would I buy all my transit from Cogent[1], given
>>>> Cogent's propensity for getting into peering fights with people
>>>> *already*,
>>>> even before *I* start sending them 1000:1 asymmetric outbound traffic?
>>>
>>> Perhaps Netflix expect this to be an ongoing problem with moree ISPs
>>> asking them to pay to deliver (following Bretts lead ;-), so with their
>>> previous transits experience why would they continue to buy from pussies?
>>>
>>>> So why would Cogent offer Netflix a helluva deal?
>>>
>>> Previous events have shown Cognet only use live rounds, so why would they
>>> not take the opportunity to get a bigger gun?
>>>
>>> Mutually assured domination. Perhaps one will buy the other sometime.
>>>
>>> brandon
>>>
>>
>>
>
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