[173458] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Netflix To Cogent To World
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Rothschild)
Thu Jul 24 16:53:39 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Adam Rothschild <asr@latency.net>
In-Reply-To: <CFF6B295.DB0ED%jason_livingood@cable.comcast.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 16:46:30 -0400
To: "Livingood, Jason" <Jason_Livingood@cable.comcast.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Not to single out Jason, who has demonstrated his worth as one of the =
=93good guys=94 in the community time after time, however I and somewhat =
of a skeptic:
That Comcast is in a =93pretty good spot=94 for capacity could be =
punctuated by any number of shifts in traffic, or new sites/services =
emerging as the next killer app. Where other access providers would =
increase capacity, Comcast would see money in its eyes, or cite such =
dated metrics as traffic ratios as a fairness metric, all the while =
playing the victim with the press.
I don=92t think I=92m overly alarmist in these views; one need only look =
to the Tata situation (congested for multiple years), which was a =
textbook case of poor execution and damage control by all involved, as a =
recent example. Fool me once...
On Jul 24, 2014, at 1:00 PM, Livingood, Jason =
<Jason_Livingood@cable.comcast.com> wrote:
> On 7/23/14, 1:18 PM, "Adam Rothschild" <asr@latency.net> wrote:
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>> Comcast=B9s position is that they could buy transit from some obscure
>> networks who don=B9t really have a viable transit offering, such as =
DT and
>> China Telecom, and implement some convoluted load balancing mechanism =
to
>> scale up traffic.
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>> (I believe this was in one of Jason Livingood=B9s posts to
>> broadbandreports, unfortunately I don=B9t have a citation handy.)
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> I=B9m pretty sure I didn=B9t say specifically that DT and China =
Telecom were
> options. I probably pointed out the lack of delivery problems prior to
> using delivery partners like Cogent (such as via Akamai or Limelight) =
and
> that delivery alternatives existed. But that=B9s in the past - we=B9re =
in a
> pretty good spot w/Netflix traffic right now, though we continue to =
add
> capacity as you=B9d expect.
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> Jason
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