[172855] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (joel jaeggli)
Fri Jul 11 14:40:08 2014
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Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 11:39:48 -0700
From: joel jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: Blake Hudson <blake@ispn.net>, nanog@nanog.org
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On 7/11/14 11:20 AM, Blake Hudson wrote:
>
> Verizon Policy Blog wrote:
>
>> There was, however, congestion at the interconnection link to the
>> edge of our network (the border router) used by the transit providers
>> chosen by Netflix to deliver video traffic to Verizon=92s network.
>
> In what world does Netflix choose a transit provider into someone
> else's network? I'm pretty sure that Verizon chooses who it peers with
> and how it announces BGP prefixes. This means that Verizon is largely
> in control of traffic engineering at its borders. If one of those
> transit providers is congested, this is something Verizon, as a
> responsible network operator, is surely aware of and has the
> capability to resolve. This is difficult, if even possible, for a
> source network operator to work around.
CDN's choose which exit the use all the time, it's kinda the raison de et=
r=E9.
If a pop has 174 3356 2914 7992 transit(s) chances are they can use any
one of them or all of them to get to foo other large transit as.
>
> This post is complete technical FUD.
>
> --Blake
>
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