[147505] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Overall Netflix bandwidth usage numbers on a network?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Lockhart)
Mon Dec 12 16:31:08 2011
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:22:38 +0000
From: Simon Lockhart <simon@slimey.org>
To: Raymond Dijkxhoorn <raymond@prolocation.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1112122210100.12219@noc.prolocation.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Mon Dec 12, 2011 at 10:11:54PM +0100, Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote:
> Akamai will peer with you anywhere and i doubt LLNW will give you trouble.
LLNW are restictive on peering.
> L3, well, they run a superb network and even more superb pricing, so why
> would they peer with anyone ;)
And as I use L3 for transit, they'd never peer with me. Not that they peer
with anyone outside the cabal anyway.
> I still think, old fashioned me, that a CDN doesnt do go without peering
> but some feel otherwise.
Quite so. I don't get why CDNs don't all peer openly. I guess most (i.e. those
which aren't Akamai) are more concerned with making money than with delivering
a good service to the end user.
Simon
