Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-13 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Sun, 13 Jul 2014, Brett Glass wrote: My customers do not want me to "creatively" find ways to extract additional money from them so as to cover expenses that Netflix should be covering. Nor do they want me to subsidize Netflix subscribers from the fees from non-Netflix subscribers. They wan

Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-13 Thread Randy Bush
> https://www.peeringdb.com/private/exchange_view.php?id=254 is the > correct exchange for the old RMIX. "CoreSite - Any2 Denver / Formerly RMIX" and 19 members. so a bit small, 17 members not counting the host. but some players with oomph, if they are real as opposed to some mpls hack. and swo

Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-13 Thread Reid Fishler
https://www.peeringdb.com/private/exchange_view.php?id=254 is the correct exchange for the old RMIX. Reid On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 11:01 PM, Randy Bush wrote: > > The RMIX is alive and well. > > cool. web site? traffic? members? > >

Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-13 Thread Bill Woodcock
(Yes, yes, I know, feeding the troll, etc.) On Jul 13, 2014, at 4:00 PM, Brett Glass wrote: > We guarantee each subscriber a certain minimum capacity to the Internet > exchange at 1850 Pearl Street > in Denver… It’s a well known regional Internet exchange point in a building > which I belie

Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-13 Thread Randy Bush
> The RMIX is alive and well. cool. web site? traffic? members?

Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-13 Thread Jima
On 2014-07-13 20:51, Randy Bush wrote: We've never been asked to POP that location. what location? i gobbled and found the rocky mtn ix, but it seems to be in coresite and defunct. there is some "any2" exchange claiming to be the second largest on the left coast, which is a crock. is there a

Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-13 Thread Randy Bush
> We've never been asked to POP that location. what location? i gobbled and found the rocky mtn ix, but it seems to be in coresite and defunct. there is some "any2" exchange claiming to be the second largest on the left coast, which is a crock. is there actually a significant local exchange in

Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-13 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Brett Glass" Note that I misunderstood you to be the Verizon blog poster I started this thread commenting on. My apology for that in a separate post, but here are some replies that amount to "you are standing on the same rock in the river they are". :-) >

Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-13 Thread Dave Temkin
We've never been asked to POP that location. If I can, I will, just as my team has POPed 15+ other locations this year alone. Brett doesn't seem interested in finding a solution. He's sent dozens of harassing emails demanding payment and nothing else. I've offered to speak to him directly but he h

Oh, pants.

2014-07-13 Thread Jay Ashworth
I've apparently misread Brett Glass's initial post, thinking he was the Verizon rep who wrote the blog post I copied in here; it's become clear that he's not. My apologies for the framing of my reply to him on the list earlier. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink

Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-13 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Valdis Kletnieks" > On Sat, 12 Jul 2014 16:02:57 -0400, Joly MacFie said: > > > 1) when does a terminating network become a transit network, and.. > > And what if "terminating" versus "transit" depends on where you observe from? > (For example, if we provid

Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-13 Thread Randy Bush
> It's a well known regional Internet exchange point in a building > which I believe is owned by Level3. It also has huge amounts of > fiber cross-connecting it to 910 15th Street, a block from the > Denver Convention Center, so that a presence at one is essentially > equivalent to a presence a

Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-13 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: na...@brettglass.com > This is Brett Glass; I have been alerted to some of the responses to my > message (which was cross-posted by a third party) and have temporarily > joined the list to chime in. The following is my response to his > message, edited slightly

Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-13 Thread Brett Glass
At 07:32 PM 7/13/2014, Jima wrote: I confess I might be splitting hairs, but what Internet exchange exists at 1850 Pearl Street? The best I can ascertain is that it's a Level3 datacenter, which doesn't seem (to me) to be the same thing. It's a well known regional Internet exchange point in a

Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-13 Thread Randy Bush
>> But before Netflix made a deal with Comcast, would you be making >> the same request ? > Yes. I have an e-mail trail dating back to November of last year in > which I attempted to discuss this with Netflix. They were > intransigent. They didn't believe that the views of a small ISP from > Wyom

Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-13 Thread Jima
On 2014-07-13 17:00, Brett Glass wrote: We currently provide that: we guarantee each subscriber a certain minimum capacity to the Internet exchange at 1850 Pearl Street in Denver (to which Netflix does not directly connect) with a certain maximum duty cycle. I confess I might be splitting hai

Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-13 Thread Brett Glass
At 06:02 PM 7/13/2014, Rubens Kuhl wrote: But before Netflix made a deal with Comcast, would you be making the same request ? Yes. I have an e-mail trail dating back to November of last year in which I attempted to discuss this with Netflix. They were intransigent. They didn't believe that t

Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-13 Thread Hugo Slabbert
My customers do not want me to "creatively" find ways to extract additional money from them so as to cover *expenses that Netflix should be covering*. Nor do they want me to subsidize Netflix subscribers from the fees from non-Netflix subscribers. They want to pay a fair price for their Internet t

Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-13 Thread Rubens Kuhl
On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 8:55 PM, Brett Glass wrote: > At 05:33 PM 7/13/2014, Tom Hill wrote: > > By the way, don't think you're not going to have to pay us for all for >> that dirt you're hurling... >> > > Building new things often does involve digging up dirt. Unlike Netflix, > we'd gladly pay

Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-13 Thread Brett Glass
At 05:33 PM 7/13/2014, Tom Hill wrote: By the way, don't think you're not going to have to pay us for all for that dirt you're hurling... Building new things often does involve digging up dirt. Unlike Netflix, we'd gladly pay anyone who participates in the digging. ;-) --Brett Glass

Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-13 Thread Tom Hill
On 14/07/14 00:00, Brett Glass wrote: ISPs would sign on so fast that such a service could BURY Netflix in short order. By the way, don't think you're not going to have to pay us for all for that dirt you're hurling... These entrepreneurs, digging up dirt and depositing it everywhere. Don't

Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-13 Thread Mike Hale
Dude. Netflix doesn't want you to do help its service. Your customers want you to do that. On Jul 13, 2014 4:03 PM, "Brett Glass" wrote: > At 10:25 AM 7/13/2014, Charles Gucker wrote: > > >ALL ISPs are in the business of providing access to > >the Internet.If you feel the need to rebel, the

Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-13 Thread Brett Glass
At 10:25 AM 7/13/2014, Charles Gucker wrote: >ALL ISPs are in the business of providing access to >the Internet.If you feel the need to rebel, then I suggest you >look at creative ways to increase revenue from your customers, My customers do not want me to "creatively" find ways to extract

Re: ESPN worldcup streaming traffic

2014-07-13 Thread Phil Bedard
MSO in the US, traffic from Akamai (who delivers the ESPN traffic) was up about 30% vs. last Sunday at the same time. Overall it was kind of negligible. It wasn't as high as it was for the USA vs. Germany match since that one was during the week and not after working hours. I imagine the majorit

Re: ESPN worldcup streaming traffic

2014-07-13 Thread Ca By
On Jul 13, 2014 2:12 PM, "Mehmet Akcin" wrote: > > Hi > > I can't be the only one watching world cup final on my roku espn app and wonder how many TBps is ESPN pushing right now. It would be interesting to see people who can share some network stats on their ISPs / IXPs. This very well be one of t

Re: ESPN worldcup streaming traffic

2014-07-13 Thread Hugo Slabbert
The Argentina semi-final on Thursday had us at about 300% of our regular daytime peaks; other preceding games were closer to about 200%. We don't have any residential connections, just business, so today's (weekend) game didn't really register much. In terms of other streamed events: The men

ESPN worldcup streaming traffic

2014-07-13 Thread Mehmet Akcin
Hi I can't be the only one watching world cup final on my roku espn app and wonder how many TBps is ESPN pushing right now. It would be interesting to see people who can share some network stats on their ISPs / IXPs. This very well be one of the biggest watched via Internet event of all the tim

RE: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-13 Thread Frank Bulk (iname.com)
A third option is to use a transparent caching box, so it caches what's seen. At $20/Mbps I suspect all the popular vendors would find three year or less ROI. Frank -Original Message- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Todd Lyons Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2014 12:17

Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-13 Thread Barry Shein
Just an observation: I've been on the internet since dirt was rocks. It seems to me that one theme which has come up over and over and over is that some new-ish technology demands more bandwidth than whatever it was people were doing previously and as it popularizes people begin fighting. In th

Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-13 Thread nanog
At 11:17 AM 7/13/2014, Todd Lyons wrote: Because that Netflix box is not an on-demand cache, it gets a bunch of shows pushed to it that may or may not be watched by any of Brett's customers. Then the bandwidth he must use to preload that box is large, much larger than the sum of the streams his

Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-13 Thread Barry Shein
On July 13, 2014 at 11:42 ra...@psg.com (Randy Bush) wrote: > > ahhh. so > >not government regulated == wild west > > got it Let's not forget that the big players in all this have cross-subsidized from huge, government-protected monopolies or very-small-N oligopolies in cable, pho

Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-13 Thread Jimmy Hess
On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 12:43 PM, Matthew Petach wrote: > On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 10:17 AM, Todd Lyons wrote: >> On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 9:53 AM, Matthew Petach >> wrote: >> Because that Netflix box is not an on-demand cache, it gets a bunch of >> shows pushed to it that may or may not be watche

Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-13 Thread Matthew Petach
On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 10:17 AM, Todd Lyons wrote: > On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 9:53 AM, Matthew Petach > wrote: > >> >How would "4U of rent" and 500W($50) electricity *not* save money? > >> Because, on top of that, we'd have huge bandwidth expenses. > > > > I know I'm just a dumb troll, but > > d

Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-13 Thread Todd Lyons
On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 9:53 AM, Matthew Petach wrote: >> >How would "4U of rent" and 500W($50) electricity *not* save money? >> Because, on top of that, we'd have huge bandwidth expenses. > > I know I'm just a dumb troll, but > don't you have the same bandwidth > demands already from your users >

Re: Equinix Sales

2014-07-13 Thread Bob Evans
Well, I am sure they haven't gone out of business. They charge so much for cross connects that it's impossible for them to go under. Besides the power is still up on all our racks in their various facilities. Thank You Bob Evans CTO > Sorry for the list traffic but I am having a tough time get

Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-13 Thread Matthew Petach
On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 9:09 AM, wrote: > At 11:39 PM 7/12/2014, Steven Tardy wrote: > > >How would "4U of rent" and 500W($50) electricity *not* save money? > > Because, on top of that, we'd have huge bandwidth expenses. I know I'm just a dumb troll, but don't you have the same bandwidth demand

Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-13 Thread jim deleskie
So it sounds like your customers want to use the service being sold, but you can't afford to service them due to the pricing they are being charged...Sounds like you need to raise prices. While I haven't worked for a rural wireless ISP, I have work for wired ISP's in the days of modems, Large tran

Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-13 Thread Charles Gucker
> If Netflix continues on its current course, ALL ISPs -- not just rural ones, > will eventually be forced to rebel. And it will not be pretty. I call hogwash.ALL ISPs are in the business of providing access to the Internet.If you feel the need to rebel, then I suggest you look at creative

Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-13 Thread Matthew Petach
On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 12:54 PM, mcfbbqroast . wrote: > [...] > > Let's cut the crap, Verizon is not irritated by Netflix's policies. They're > irritated by Netflix and friends cutting into their far more lucrative > content market. > > True--otherwise, it would make more sense for Verizon to si

Equinix Sales

2014-07-13 Thread Justin Wilson
Sorry for the list traffic but I am having a tough time getting a sales person from Equinix to return my call. I have called two and they didn¹t seem to eager to even talk. I tried their form on the web-site and it¹s broken. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Justin -- Justin Wilson http:

Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-13 Thread Matthew Petach
On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 7:50 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Randy Bush wrote: > >> Right now, peering agreements are the wild west. > no. those days passed in the last century. you just don't know them. but then, you are not an operator so no surprise. what you are seeing,

Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-13 Thread nanog
At 11:39 PM 7/12/2014, Steven Tardy wrote: >How would "4U of rent" and 500W($50) electricity *not* save money? Because, on top of that, we'd have huge bandwidth expenses. And Netflix would refuse to cover any of that out of the billions in fees it's collecting from subscribers. We can't raise o

Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-13 Thread nanog
Ironically, I did this with my Usenet news feed (which back then was the big bandwidth hog) 20 years ago. Mark Lottor set it up. I understand that someone has just been granted a dubious patent on the same technique, despite the well known prior art. --Brett Glass At 08:45 AM 7/13/2014, Aled

Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-13 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sat, 12 Jul 2014 18:19:32 -0400, Barry Shein said: > What hair are you trying to split? That you were using a shared > address? Are people behind a NAT wall not on the internet? I've got a 50 pound bag of Purina Troll Chow to get rid of, so I'll opine that a user on The World was more "on the

Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-13 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sat, 12 Jul 2014 16:02:57 -0400, Joly MacFie said: > 1) when does a terminating network become a transit network, and.. And what if "terminating" versus "transit" depends on where you observe from? (For example, if we provide transit to a downstream, but only announce a route to one of our ups

Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-13 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
iBeam tried to do that. If only they had used something else than Windows Server and other Microsoft products to do the caching. On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 7:45 AM, Aled Morris wrote: > On 13 July 2014 06:39, Steven Tardy wrote: > > > (OK, Keep 100mbps for Netflix to pre-populate, 100mbps is 30T

Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-13 Thread Aled Morris
On 13 July 2014 06:39, Steven Tardy wrote: > (OK, Keep 100mbps for Netflix to pre-populate, 100mbps is 30TB/month) > (Now I'm curious how many GB/month Netflix pre-populates, hmmm) > Shame Netflix can't fill their appliances using really cheap, bulk, one-way satellite bandwidth which is useless

OT: WIld West [was: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix]

2014-07-13 Thread Miles Fidelman
Larry Sheldon wrote: On 7/12/2014 9:42 PM, Randy Bush wrote: ahhh. so not government regulated == wild west More like "not civilized == wild west. Although as a native Westerner, I thing that is still an unfair slur. Well, ok, maybe not the old west, but some of the current shenaniga

Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-13 Thread Miles Fidelman
Randy Bush wrote: ahhh. so not government regulated == wild west lawless, big guys fighting with little guys in the middle == wild west at this point, maybe john curran, who you may remember from nearnet, usually steps in with a good screed on industry self-regulation. yeah John, where

Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-13 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 13/07/2014 01:22, na...@brettglass.com wrote: > "Open Connect" is not, in fact, a CDN. Nor is it "peering." It is merely a set > of policies for direct connection to ISPs, and for placing servers in ISPs' > facilities, that is as favorable as possible in every way to Netflix. It > costs > Net

Re: The Cidr Report

2014-07-13 Thread Karsten Thomann
FYI, Geoff fixed the problem Am Samstag, 12. Juli 2014, 22:51:43 schrieb Karsten Thomann: > I've asked Geoff Huston to check, but no answer until now... > > Am Samstag, 12. Juli 2014, 14:11:13 schrieb Jay Ashworth: > > Well, probably 512k, but... > > > > - Original Message - > > > > > F