[173003] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (joel jaeggli)
Mon Jul 14 15:38:24 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 12:38:10 -0700
From: joel jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: Rubens Kuhl <rubensk@gmail.com>, Nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 7/14/14 10:06 AM, Rubens Kuhl wrote:
>> If Netflix were a good citizen, it would (a) let ISPs cache content; (=
b)
>> pay them
>> equitably for direct connections (smaller and more remote ISPs have hi=
gher
>> costs
>> per customer and should get MORE per account than Comcast, rather than=
>> receiving
>> nothing); and (c) work with ISPs to develop updated technology that ma=
kes
>> streaming
>> more efficient. Bandwidth is expensive, and unicast streaming without
>> caching is by
>> far the most inefficient conceivable way of delivering "fat" content t=
o
>> the consumer.
>>
> I noted most of the discussion seems to point to Internet bandwidth as =
a
> cost factor to ISPs, but I wonder what's the impact of Netflix on acces=
s
> network costs ? They might be harder to measure or directly correlate t=
o
> streaming usage, but for non-wired networks (which is usually the case=
in
> rural networks), this impact sounds more harmful to me than uplink cost=
s.
if your customer buys 20, needs 6 and gets 4 I guess that's problem, if
the customer buys 2 and needs 4 that's a different one... It's
politically inconvenient to assign blame to third parties for the
provisioned capacity of the last mile network.
>
> Rubens
>
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