[152825] in North American Network Operators' Group
YouTube Video Streaming
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thames)
Thu May 17 22:38:07 2012
From: Thames <thames@viewqwest.com>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 10:37:30 +0800
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I would like to get some input for the following problem we face with YouTu=
be video streaming.
We are an ISP in Singapore and peer with Google at Equinix and SOX (Singapo=
re Open Exchange), For about 2 weeks we have been facing choppy streaming o=
r continuous buffering on various YouTube videos. These problem videos are =
streamed at HD or original quality.
Our troubleshooting narrow down to those bad videos being streamed to us fr=
om outside Singapore. We contacted Google support, they are confused too, a=
s why we are served from a cache server in Poland on one of the videos. The=
case has been escalated within Google, unfortunately no update from them s=
ince.
Not all YouTube videos are bad through us, some 45 minutes videos can fully=
buffered within seconds on HD or original quality, of course the IP we str=
eamed for these videos are through our local peering with Google.
-Thames
