Thanks for the explanation...did not consider that before...will investigate.., any tips that can be shared will be welcome. :)
Faisal On Dec 11, 2011, at 10:49 PM, Christopher Morrow <morrowc.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 10:46 PM, Faisal Imtiaz <fai...@snappydsl.net> wrote: >> Simple, keep traffic off paid ip transit circuits.... >> > > (I think joel's point was: "peer with amazon, done-and-done") > >> Faisal >> >> On Dec 11, 2011, at 10:21 PM, Joel Jaeggli <joe...@bogus.com> wrote: >> >>> Netflix uses CDNs for content delivery and the platform runs in EC2. What >>> would peering with them achieve? >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>> On Dec 11, 2011, at 18:06, Faisal Imtiaz <fai...@snappydsl.net> wrote: >>> >>>> Which leads to a question to be asked... >>>> >>>> Is netflix willing to peer directly with ISP / NSP's ? >>>> >>>> Regards. >>>> >>>> Faisal Imtiaz >>>> Snappy Internet& Telecom >>>> >>>> >>>> On 12/11/2011 7:29 PM, Dave Temkin wrote: >>>>> Feel free to contact peering@netflix<dot>com - we're happy to provide you >>>>> with delivery statistics for traffic terminating on your network. >>>>> >>>>> Regards, >>>>> -Dave Temkin >>>>> Netflix >>>>> >>>>> On 12/7/11 8:57 AM, Blake Hudson wrote: >>>>>> Yeah, that's an interesting one. We currently utilize netflow for this, >>>>>> but you also need to consider that netflix streaming is just port 80 www >>>>>> traffic. Because netflix uses CDNs, its difficult to pin down the >>>>>> traffic to specific hosts in the CDN and say that this traffic was >>>>>> netflix, while this traffic was the latest windows update (remember this >>>>>> is often a shared hosting platform). We've done our own testing and have >>>>>> come to a good solution which uses a combination of nbar, packet >>>>>> marking, and netflow to come to a conclusion. On a ~160Mbps link, >>>>>> netflix peaks out between 30-50Mbps around 8-10PM each evening. The rest >>>>>> of the traffic is predominantly other forms of HTTP traffic (including >>>>>> other video streaming services). >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Martin Hepworth wrote the following on 12/3/2011 2:36 AM: >>>>>>> Also checkout Adrian Cockcroft presentations on their architecture which >>>>>>> describes how they use aws and CDns etc >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Martin >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >> >