I’d wager that when they say it’s not storing content that it’s an oversimplification. I bet it stores the content until the show is over and the clients are all done watching (or until some absolute timeout expires). That’s pure speculation on my part.
So it’s true that NetSKRT doesn’t cost us anything, but we have several caching appliances and generally NetSKRT is the least effective of them. The combination of the other caching appliances take about 27% of peak time traffic. NetSKRT is like 0.1% - 0.5% depending on the day. I imagine they’re still in startup mode and maybe that will all change as they start handling more live content sources. I will also have to pay attention to their traffic during NFL season because I imagine NFL games being on Prime Video might cause short term bumps. TBD. -Adam From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Nate Burke Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2024 4:13 PM To: af@af.afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Netskrt.io If it only works for live content, what happens when someone pauses and then is time shifted a few seconds off of live? They go direct to the CDN Server then? Or does it cache several seconds/minutes of live programming. On 8/15/2024 2:17 PM, Jason McKemie wrote: Thanks guys! On Thu, Aug 15, 2024 at 2:10 PM Zach Underwood <zunder1...@gmail.com <mailto:zunder1...@gmail.com> > wrote: Yes we are. Points about them 1. Yes the boxes are really free, you just give them power, space, network connection. 2. They get paid by Amazon and other streaming platforms for each gb of traffic that they deliver but like limelight or akamai 3. We peer with the box over BGP and they announce a /32 ip from their own ip space 4. The amazon video client will direct client traffic to the above /32 5. It only works with your ASN and does not work with downstream ASN 6. It only works with live streaming content, it does not store any content. When a client requests a live steam then the box will pull it from the upstream CDN server. When a 2nd client requests the same steam then the box will send it out without having to pull down another steam 7. Today amazon streaming is working, later this year NBC and peacock steaming support is coming for all networks. Peacock is enabled for some ASNs. On Thu, Aug 15, 2024 at 2:55 PM Jason McKemie <j.mcke...@veloxinetbroadband.com <mailto:j.mcke...@veloxinetbroadband.com> > wrote: Is anyone using caching boxes from this company? -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com <mailto:AF@af.afmug.com> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- Zach Underwood (RHCE,RHCSA,RHCT,UACA) My website <http://zachunderwood.me> advance-networking.com <http://advance-networking.com> -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com <mailto:AF@af.afmug.com> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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