[147464] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Overall Netflix bandwidth usage numbers on a network?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Sun Dec 11 22:23:05 2011
In-Reply-To: <4EE56198.40307@snappydsl.net>
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 19:21:49 -0800
To: "Faisal@snappydsl.net" <Faisal@snappydsl.net>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Netflix uses CDNs for content delivery and the platform runs in EC2. What wo=
uld peering with them achieve?
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On Dec 11, 2011, at 18:06, Faisal Imtiaz <faisal@snappydsl.net> wrote:
> Which leads to a question to be asked...
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> Is netflix willing to peer directly with ISP / NSP's ?
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> Regards.
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> Faisal Imtiaz
> Snappy Internet& Telecom
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> 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.
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>> Regards,
>> -Dave Temkin
>> Netflix
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>> On 12/7/11 8:57 AM, Blake Hudson wrote:
>>> Yeah, that's an interesting one. We currently utilize netflow for this, b=
ut you also need to consider that netflix streaming is just port 80 www traf=
fic. Because netflix uses CDNs, its difficult to pin down the traffic to spe=
cific hosts in the CDN and say that this traffic was netflix, while this tra=
ffic was the latest windows update (remember this is often a shared hosting p=
latform). We've done our own testing and have come to a good solution which u=
ses a combination of nbar, packet marking, and netflow to come to a conclusi=
on. On a ~160Mbps link, netflix peaks out between 30-50Mbps around 8-10PM ea=
ch evening. The rest of the traffic is predominantly other forms of HTTP tra=
ffic (including other video streaming services).
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>>> Martin Hepworth wrote the following on 12/3/2011 2:36 AM:
>>>> Also checkout Adrian Cockcroft presentations on their architecture whic=
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>>>> describes how they use aws and CDns etc
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