Netskrt - ISP-colo CDN
Aaron Gould
aaron1 at gvtc.com
Fri Apr 5 01:47:34 UTC 2024
I've had my dual-100g-connected Amazon ACEv2 caches for over a year
now. With my ~55,000 subs I saw every Thursday night for NFL/TNF usage
at 15 gbps X2 (so 30 gbps total) and one day in late November
(thanksgiving probably) I saw 25 gbps x2 (so 50 gbps) usage!
-Aaron
On 4/4/2024 6:08 PM, Paul Bradford wrote:
> I have some on my network. I don't think they populate content from
> their own cdn network, but it comes from Amazon. interestingly for
> the NFL super bowl, while paramount+ streamed the game, on Amazon
> Prime Video you could "Watch super bowl on paramount+ Via Prime.".
> that did actually drive users to using the netskrt caches.
>
> They seem to work OK. TNF in 6 months will tell us more. :)
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 4, 2024 at 6:14 PM John Stitt <jstitt at hop-electric.com> wrote:
>
> 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:
>
> 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/
>
>
> --
> -Aaron
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