[132628] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning Comcast's
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Fischer)
Mon Nov 29 21:03:32 2010
In-Reply-To: <3F3C0336-9C56-4618-9B33-6578517AAAEF@americafree.tv>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 21:03:29 -0500
From: Steven Fischer <sfischer1967@gmail.com>
To: Marshall Eubanks <tme@americafree.tv>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Trying to follow this - so, if I have followed it correctly, L3 hosts
high-bandwitdh services (namely NetFlix) to which an abundance of Comcast
users subscribe? And Comcast is crying foul, and claiming a portion of L3'=
s
revenue is rightfully theirs, for being "last mile" to a significant portio=
n
of the CDN/NetFlix customer base? Does L3 even service a home user market,
in the same vein as Comcast or Verizon?
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 8:55 PM, Marshall Eubanks <tme@americafree.tv>wrote=
:
>
> On Nov 29, 2010, at 6:24 PM, Phil Bedard wrote:
>
> > Is L3 hosting content for Netflix?
>
> You bet.
>
>
> http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2010/11/11/level-3-signs-deal-to=
-be-a-primary-netflix-cdn-shares-rally/
>
> =95 NOVEMBER 11, 2010, 9:13 AM ET
>
> Level 3 Signs Deal To Be A Primary Netflix CDN; Shares Rally
>
> Regards
> Marshall
>
> > Netflix has become a large source of
> > traffic going to end users. L3 likely could have held out on this one =
if
> > the content they were hosting is valuable enough to Comcast's customers=
,
> > but maybe what Comcast was asking for wasn't much in the grand scheme o=
f
> > things.
> >
> > Obviously someone has to pay for the access infrastructure and Comcast
> > would much rather get the content provider to pay for it versus passing
> it
> > along to their customers. I think they probably just took a stab and L=
3
> > complied.
> >
> > Phil
> >
> >
> >
> > On 11/29/10 5:28 PM, "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net> wrote:
> >
> >> <
> http://www.marketwatch.com/story/level-3-communications-issues-statement-
> >> concerning-comcasts-actions-2010-11-29?reflink=3DMW_news_stmp>
> >>
> >> I understand that politics is off-topic, but this policy affects
> >> operational aspects of the 'Net.
> >>
> >> Just to be clear, L3 is saying content providers should not have to pa=
y
> >> to deliver content to broadband providers who have their own product
> >> which has content as well. I am certain all the content providers on
> >> this list are happy to hear L3's change of heart and will be applying
> for
> >> settlement free peering tomorrow. (L3 wouldn't want other providers t=
o
> >> claim the Vyvx or CDN or other content services provided by L3 are
> >> competing and L3 is putting up a "toll booth" on the Internet, would
> >> they?)
> >>
> >> --
> >> TTFN,
> >> patrick
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
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