[172987] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Herbert)
Mon Jul 14 12:43:06 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: George Herbert <george.herbert@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <6608CA79-A26C-4FC6-B50C-2F5AEA229577@puck.nether.net>
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 09:42:50 -0700
To: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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> On Jul 14, 2014, at 6:03 AM, Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net> wrote:
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> In my experience the bandwidth is typically the lowest part of the cost eq=
uation.
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> Why transcode on 1k nodes when you can do it once and distribute it at low=
er cost,
> including in electricity to run the host CPU.
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> Centralized transcoding on dedicated hardware makes sense.
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> - Jared
Except perhaps for the (current discussion) small rural ISP.
The bandwidth scaling equations out in Ruralistan have never been the same a=
s in large metros. You see this in wireless delivered performance as well. =
Netflix is probably not the straw that broke the camel's back, but it's The=
Thing Du Jour which one can point at and criticize, so it 's becoming a foc=
al point.
George William Herbert
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