Netskrt - ISP-colo CDN
Aaron Gould
aaron1 at gvtc.com
Thu Apr 4 23:01:16 UTC 2024
Thanks ... that svta caching sounds interesting. i watched the
presentation, but don't understand how it's used by ISP's that want to
benefit from it.
-Aaron
On 4/4/2024 5:14 PM, John Stitt wrote:
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> The website says they are part of the Streaming Video Technology Alliance.
>
> I wonder if this is a prepackaged Open Cache box.
>
> https://opencaching.svta.org/
>
> We also don’t appear to have had any traffic from them. Not much on
> the peeringdb for the USA ASN either.
>
> BGP.tools shows they have upstreams with each ASN, and are on Ohio IX
> with AS53471, but not really any peers anywhere. Looks like Cogent
> and Zayo for upstreams and only peer I see is AS1239 (Sprint Wireline
> (Cogent))
>
> John Stitt
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> *Subject:* Re: Netskrt - ISP-colo CDN
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> Thanks... they told me it was free.
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> -Aaron
>
> On 4/4/2024 4:12 PM, Eric Dugas wrote:
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> That name rang a bell so I looked up my emails.
>
> They contacted me last year, they were claiming to be "working
> with some of the major streaming brands, such as Amazon Prime
> Video, to improve the quality of both VOD and live streaming while
> also reducing the load on ISP networks such as your own.".
>
> Based on my quick research, they have a few registered ASNs (their
> peeringdb page <https://www.peeringdb.com/org/36226>) with a few
> netblocks but I get 0 traffic from them (we're a sizable eyeball
> network). Their origin network might still not be ready but
> digging a little bit more, it seems they act as a third-party
> video caching solution and not as an origin CDN so in the end,
> they're really just trying to sell ISPs and other types of
> customers their caching solutions.
>
>
> Eric
>
> On Thu, Apr 4, 2024 at 4:00 PM Aaron Gould <aaron1 at gvtc.com> wrote:
>
> Anyone out there using Netskrt CDN? I mean, installed in your
> network
> for content delivery to your customers. I understand Netskrt
> provides
> caching for some well known online video streaming services...
> just
> wondering if there are any network operators that have worked
> with
> Netskrt and deployed their caching servers in your networks
> and what
> have you thought about it? What Internet uplink savings are
> you seeing?
>
> Netskrt - https://www.netskrt.io/
>
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> -Aaron
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