[147459] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Overall Netflix bandwidth usage numbers on a network?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Temkin)
Sun Dec 11 19:31:13 2011
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 16:29:53 -0800
From: Dave Temkin <dave@temk.in>
To: Blake Hudson <blake@ispn.net>
In-Reply-To: <4EDF9AE9.9040700@ispn.net>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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Feel free to contact peering@netflix<dot>com - we're happy to provide you with delivery statistics for
traffic terminating on your network.
Regards,
-Dave Temkin
Netflix
On 12/7/11 8:57 AM, Blake Hudson wrote:
> Yeah, that's an interesting one. We currently utilize netflow for this, but you also need to consider that
> netflix streaming is just port 80 www traffic. Because netflix uses CDNs, its difficult to pin down the
> traffic to specific hosts in the CDN and say that this traffic was netflix, while this traffic was the
> latest windows update (remember this is often a shared hosting platform). We've done our own testing and
> have come to a good solution which uses a combination of nbar, packet marking, and netflow to come to a
> conclusion. On a ~160Mbps link, netflix peaks out between 30-50Mbps around 8-10PM each evening. The rest
> of the traffic is predominantly other forms of HTTP traffic (including other video streaming services).
>
>
> Martin Hepworth wrote the following on 12/3/2011 2:36 AM:
>> Also checkout Adrian Cockcroft presentations on their architecture which
>> describes how they use aws and CDns etc
>>
>> Martin
>>
>>
>
