[172922] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (nanog@brettglass.com)
Sun Jul 13 11:50:54 2014
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Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2014 09:50:16 -0600
To: Aled Morris <aledm@qix.co.uk>, Steven Tardy <sjt5atra@gmail.com>
From: nanog@brettglass.com
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Ironically, I did this with my Usenet news feed (which back then
was the big bandwidth hog) 20 years ago. Mark Lottor set it up. I
understand that someone has just been granted a dubious patent on
the same technique, despite the well known prior art.
--Brett Glass
At 08:45 AM 7/13/2014, Aled Morris wrote:
>On 13 July 2014 06:39, Steven Tardy
><<mailto:sjt5atra@gmail.com>sjt5atra@gmail.com> wrote:
>(OK, Keep 100mbps for Netflix to pre-populate, 100mbps is 30TB/month)
>(Now I'm curious how many GB/month Netflix pre-populates, hmmm)
>
>
>Shame Netflix can't fill their appliances using really cheap,
>bulk, one-way satellite bandwidth which is useless for most other
>Internet applications. Â Then their traffic wouldn't use any of
>your real, paid for, transit.
>
>Of course siting a dish would be another expense with hosting one
>of their boxes, but if it made the on-going costs go away...
>
>AledÂ
