[140696] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Netflix Is Eating Up More Of North America's Bandwidth Than
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phil Regnauld)
Wed May 18 06:32:58 2011
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 12:32:49 +0200
From: Phil Regnauld <regnauld@nsrc.org>
To: nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <B925B320C2655641ADBBFC00B1F0B82004754DB5@ukbb3.ukbroadband.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Leigh Porter (leigh.porter) writes:
>
> Well it depends if Netflix pay for the bandwidth they use
You mean, customers have to pay for the bandwidth they use.
I'm sure NetFlix is paying *their* network and other transit providers
for outgoing bandwidth they consume.
> or if they get it all for free with non settlement peering. If, suddenly,
> your business model breaks because of a huge demand for high bandwidth
> services by your customers then either you need to charge your customers
> more or Netflix (or whoever) need to share the pie.
Whoever ? Nah, the consumers. Bad business model, change business model.
Phil