[173405] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Netflix To Cogent To World
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bob Evans)
Wed Jul 23 11:31:42 2014
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Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 08:31:29 -0700
From: "Bob Evans" <bob@FiberInternetCenter.com>
To: "Brandon Butterworth" <brandon@rd.bbc.co.uk>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Reply-To: bob@FiberInternetCenter.com
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Most likely Netflix writes policies to filter known cogent conflict
peers...Chances are they use cogent to reach the cogent customer base and
other peers. I know from experience that peering directly with Netflix
works very well....they don't depend heavily on transit delivery if direct
peering is possible.
Thank You
Bob Evans
CTO
>> 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
>
