[160331] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Global caches
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan White)
Mon Feb 4 09:38:35 2013
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 08:35:39 -0600
From: Dan White <dwhite@olp.net>
To: Kyle Camilleri <Kyle.Camilleri@melitaplc.com>
In-Reply-To: <20130204143311.GC6481@dan.olp.net>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 02/04/13 08:33 -0600, Dan White wrote:
>On 02/04/13 14:03 +0000, Kyle Camilleri wrote:
>>Some CDN providers such as Akamai and Google (often called Global Google
>>Cache) are offering caches to ISPs. It is very convenient for small ISPs
>>to alleviate bandwidth towards the provider, but also the CDN provider
>>benefits by putting source of data closer to the user resulting in far
>>better performance.
>>
>>Does anybody know of any other CDN providers that offer similar caches?
>
>Netflix does as well:
>
>https://signup.netflix.com/openconnect/hardware
>
>The last time I asked, they required 5GB/s of peak traffic to consider you.
Make that: 5 gigabits/s of peak traffic.
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Dan White
