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Re: Netflix To Cogent To World
From: Adam Rothschild <asr () latency net>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 16:46:30 -0400
Not to single out Jason, who has demonstrated his worth as one of the “good guys” in the community time after time, however I and somewhat of a skeptic: That Comcast is in a “pretty good spot” for capacity could be punctuated by any number of shifts in traffic, or new sites/services emerging as the next killer app. Where other access providers would increase capacity, Comcast would see money in its eyes, or cite such dated metrics as traffic ratios as a fairness metric, all the while playing the victim with the press. I don’t think I’m overly alarmist in these views; one need only look to the Tata situation (congested for multiple years), which was a textbook case of poor execution and damage control by all involved, as a recent example. Fool me once... On Jul 24, 2014, at 1:00 PM, Livingood, Jason <Jason_Livingood () cable comcast com> wrote:
On 7/23/14, 1:18 PM, "Adam Rothschild" <asr () latency net> wrote:Comcast¹s position is that they could buy transit from some obscure networks who don¹t really have a viable transit offering, such as DT and China Telecom, and implement some convoluted load balancing mechanism to scale up traffic. (I believe this was in one of Jason Livingood¹s posts to broadbandreports, unfortunately I don¹t have a citation handy.)I¹m pretty sure I didn¹t say specifically that DT and China Telecom were options. I probably pointed out the lack of delivery problems prior to using delivery partners like Cogent (such as via Akamai or Limelight) and that delivery alternatives existed. But that¹s in the past - we¹re in a pretty good spot w/Netflix traffic right now, though we continue to add capacity as you¹d expect. Jason
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- Re: Netflix To Cogent To World Adam Rothschild (Jul 24)
- Re: Netflix To Cogent To World Bob Evans (Jul 23)
- Re: Netflix To Cogent To World Blake Hudson (Jul 23)
- Re: Netflix To Cogent To World Brandon Butterworth (Jul 23)
- Re: Netflix To Cogent To World Matthew Petach (Jul 23)
- Re: Netflix To Cogent To World Mark Tinka (Jul 30)
- Re: Netflix To Cogent To World Owen DeLong (Jul 30)
- Re: Netflix To Cogent To World Mark Tinka (Jul 30)
- Re: Netflix To Cogent To World Owen DeLong (Jul 30)
- Re: Netflix To Cogent To World Mark Tinka (Jul 30)
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