It is actually buffer-based, as it picks the video rate as a function of the current buffer occupancy.
See here http://yuba.stanford.edu/~nickm/papers/sigcomm2014-video.pdf -- evelio On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 6:56 PM, Matt Hoppes <mhop...@indigowireless.com> wrote: > Has anyone else observed Netflix sessions attempting to come into customer > CPE devices at well in excess of the customers throttled plan? > > I'm not talking error retries on the line. I'm talking like two to three > times in excess of what the customers CPE device can handle. > > I'm observing massive buffer overruns in some of our switches that appear > to be directly related to this. And I can't figure out what possible good > purpose Netflix would have for attempting to do this. > > Curious if anyone else has seen it?
