[173401] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Netflix To Cogent To World
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandon Butterworth)
Wed Jul 23 11:13:27 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 16:11:53 +0100
From: Brandon Butterworth <brandon@rd.bbc.co.uk>
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
In-Reply-To: <7243979.6896.1406126897011.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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> If I were Netflix, why would I buy all my transit from Cogent[1], given
> Cogent's propensity for getting into peering fights with people *already*,
> even before *I* start sending them 1000:1 asymmetric outbound traffic?
Perhaps Netflix expect this to be an ongoing problem with moree ISPs
asking them to pay to deliver (following Bretts lead ;-), so with their
previous transits experience why would they continue to buy from pussies?
> So why would Cogent offer Netflix a helluva deal?
Previous events have shown Cognet only use live rounds, so why would they
not take the opportunity to get a bigger gun?
Mutually assured domination. Perhaps one will buy the other sometime.
brandon
