[171716] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Observations of an Internet Middleman (Level3) (was: RIP Network
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jean-Francois Mezei)
Sat May 10 19:32:35 2014
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In these situations, I find it helps to mentally implement structural
separation.
So you have level3-Transit and Level3-CDN as separate companies.
Netflix pays Level3-CDN to make content available locally in many cities.
It is up to the ISP to find the most efficient way to connect to the
Level3-CDN node(s).
As a CDN, does Level3 offer free peering with ISPs who only have to pay
for ports in a big switch ? ?
Similarly, if there were Comcast-Transit and Comcast-ISP, and I purchase
transit from Comcast-Transit, does it offer good connectivity around the
world, or is it just a shell company that serves the Comcast-ISP ?
