[173675] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Netflix To Cogent To World
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Wed Jul 30 19:39:31 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <201407301851.26880.mark.tinka@seacom.mu>
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 16:35:32 -0700
To: mark.tinka@seacom.mu
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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On Jul 30, 2014, at 9:51 AM, Mark Tinka <mark.tinka@seacom.mu> wrote:
> On Wednesday, July 30, 2014 06:21:46 PM Owen DeLong wrote:
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>> Yes and no=85
>>=20
>> The barrier to Netflix becoming a consumer ISP is very
>> high=85 Very very high. It costs a lot of money to deploy
>> all that last mile infrastructure, assuming you can get
>> permits, acquire rights-of-way, etc. to even do it.
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> Note I said "...certain major...". For sure, not all=20
> content owners have the might or time to become ISP's=20
> (whether for themselves or for their customers). But=20
> definitely, "certain major" ones do... and we are already=20
> seeing bits of that, here and there in the world...
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> I can't predict the future, but if "certain major" content=20
> owners/networks find the barriers to entry surmountable,=20
> consolidation could close the loop (certainly, if money,=20
> skill and effort wasn't my problem, this would be one of my=20
> strategies).
In that case, I would argue that the attempts to freeze Netflix
out in a SlowLane extortion scheme are a move by the existing
content/ISP conglomerates to do just exactly that, no?
If not, then I am completely failing to understand you point.
Owen
