[147463] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Overall Netflix bandwidth usage numbers on a network?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Faisal Imtiaz)
Sun Dec 11 21:07:25 2011
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 21:06:16 -0500
From: Faisal Imtiaz <faisal@snappydsl.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <4EE54B01.6000305@temk.in>
Reply-To: Faisal@snappydsl.net
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Which leads to a question to be asked...
Is netflix willing to peer directly with ISP / NSP's ?
Regards.
Faisal Imtiaz
Snappy Internet& Telecom
On 12/11/2011 7:29 PM, Dave Temkin wrote:
> 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
>>>
>>>
>>
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