[172813] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Petach)
Thu Jul 10 21:35:17 2014
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Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 18:35:10 -0700
From: Matthew Petach <mpetach@netflight.com>
To: Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 6:12 PM, Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>
wrote:
> Randy Bush wrote:
>
>> And, of course, one might ask why Netflix isn't ... making use of a
>>> caching network like Akamai, as many other large traffic sources do
>>> on a routine basis.
>>>
>> they do. netflix rolls their own cache servers, installable in any
>> network
>>
>>
>>
> At the ISPs expense, including connectivity to a peering point. Most
> content providers pay Akamai, Netflix wants ISPs to pay them. Hmmm....
>
Uh, yeah, you've already been corrected on that
score, no need to spank you again for that one...
> Now I write a check every month to both Verizon and Netflix - and clearly
> it would be nice if some of that went to provisioning better service
> between the two. But I can as easily point to Netflix, as to Verizon, when
> it comes to which dollar stream should be going to bigger (or more
> efficient) pipes.
So, if Netflix had to pay additional money to get direct
links to Verizon, you'd be OK paying an additional
50cents/month to cover those additional costs,
right? And when Time Warner also wants Netflix
to pay for direct connections, you'd be ok paying
an additional 50cents/month to cover those costs
as well, right? And another 50cents/month for the
direct connections to Sprint? And another 50cents/month
for the direct connections to cablevision? (repeat for
whatever top list of eyeball networks you want to
reference).
At what point do you draw the line and say "wait
a minute, this model isn't scalable; if every eyeball
network charges netflix to connect directly to them,
my Netflix bill is going to be $70/month instead of
$7/month, and I'm going to end up cancelling my
subscription to them."
>
> Miles Fidelman
>
Matt
