[159166] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Netflix transit preference?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Thu Dec 27 13:26:58 2012
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
In-Reply-To: <CANeLk7RZFCjoJJp9Q6BAWkM-pPZ7mH6zcmxZP-3mLC-TdfEQgA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2012 13:26:39 -0500
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Dec 27, 2012, at 13:19 , randal k <nanog@data102.com> wrote:
> I work at a datacenter in southern Colorado that is the upstream =
bandwidth
> provider for several regional ISPs. We have been investigating our
> ever-growing bandwidth usage and have found that out of transits
> (Level3,Cogent,HE) that Netflix always seems to come in via Hurricane
> Electric. (We move ~1.4gbps to Netflix, and are thus not a candidate =
for
> peering. And they have no POP close.)
Your statement about peering makes no sense. You are trying to engineer =
where their traffic comes and yet you refuse to have a direct connection =
which would give you full control? Weird.......
> I tested this by advertising a /24 across all providers, then =
selectively
> removed the advertisement to certain carriers to see where the =
bandwidth
> goes. In order, it appears that if there is a HE route, Netflix uses =
it,
> period. If there isn't, it prefers Level3, and Cogent comes last.
Completely unsurprising.
> Since Netflix is a big hunk of our bandwidth (and obviously makes our
> customers happy), we are included to buy some more HE. However, if =
Netflix
> decides that they want to randomly switch to, say, Cogent, we may be =
under
> a year-long bandwidth contract that isn't particularly valuable =
anymore.
>=20
> With all of that, I am interested in finding out of any knowledge =
about
> Netflix transit preferences, be it inside information, anecdotal, or
> otherwise. I did email peering@ but haven't heard back, thus the =
public
> question.
Why don't you ask Netflix?
And why not ask them for kit to put on-net? =
<https://signup.netflix.com/openconnect>
--=20
TTFN,
patrick
