On May 18, 2011, at 3:06 AM, Leigh Porter wrote: > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Carl Rosevear [mailto:crosev...@skytap.com] >> >> "Eating Up" sounds so overweight and unhealthy. Since a good number >> of us get paid for delivering bits, isn't this a good thing? Always >> glad to see bits and dollars flowing into the Internet, personally. >> However must express severe dissatisfaction with the topic of the >> thread a while ago referencing Comcast trying to charge providers for >> delivery over their network. Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm pretty happy >> with the current model... even if it means a $5/month residential >> rate hike (or something). >> >> --C >> > > Well it depends if Netflix pay for the bandwidth they use or if they get > it all for free with non settlement peering. If, suddenly, your business > model breaks because of a huge demand for high bandwidth services by > your customers then either you need to charge your customers more or > Netflix (or whoever) need to share the pie.
Netflix is hosted in ec2 and they use a lot of CDN. not sure that it's germain to the question of access to customers to measure which direction the money changes hands > -- > Leigh Porter > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. > For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email > ______________________________________________________________________ > >
