[147468] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Overall Netflix bandwidth usage numbers on a network?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Faisal Imtiaz)
Sun Dec 11 22:47:39 2011
In-Reply-To: <387BECF4-7EF9-43E6-BEEE-AA42DF1EEE19@bogus.com>
From: Faisal Imtiaz <faisal@snappydsl.net>
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 22:46:54 -0500
To: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Simple, keep traffic off paid ip transit circuits....
Faisal
On Dec 11, 2011, at 10:21 PM, Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com> wrote:
> Netflix uses CDNs for content delivery and the platform runs in EC2. What w=
ould peering with them achieve?
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Dec 11, 2011, at 18:06, Faisal Imtiaz <faisal@snappydsl.net> wrote:
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>> 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 yo=
u 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,=
but you also need to consider that netflix streaming is just port 80 www tr=
affic. Because netflix uses CDNs, its difficult to pin down the traffic to s=
pecific hosts in the CDN and say that this traffic was netflix, while this t=
raffic was the latest windows update (remember this is often a shared hostin=
g platform). We've done our own testing and have come to a good solution whi=
ch uses a combination of nbar, packet marking, and netflow to come to a conc=
lusion. On a ~160Mbps link, netflix peaks out between 30-50Mbps around 8-10P=
M each evening. The rest of the traffic is predominantly other forms of HTTP=
traffic (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 whi=
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>>>>> describes how they use aws and CDns etc
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