Re: Netskrt - ISP-colo CDN

[Aaron Gould <aaron1 () gvtc com>]

Thanks... they told me it was free.

-Aaron

On 4/4/2024 4:12 PM, Eric Dugas wrote:
> That name rang a bell so I looked up my emails.
>
> They contacted me last year, they were claiming to be "working with 
> some of the major streaming brands, such as Amazon Prime Video, to 
> improve the quality of both VOD and live streaming while also reducing 
> the load on ISP networks such as your own.".
>
> Based on my quick research, they have a few registered ASNs (their 
> peeringdb page <https://www.peeringdb.com/org/36226>) with a few 
> netblocks but I get 0 traffic from them (we're a sizable eyeball 
> network). Their origin network might still not be ready but digging a 
> little bit more, it seems they act as a third-party video caching 
> solution and not as an origin CDN so in the end, they're really just 
> trying to sell ISPs and other types of customers their caching solutions.
>
> Eric
>
> On Thu, Apr 4, 2024 at 4:00 PM Aaron Gould <aaron1 () gvtc com> wrote:
>
>     Anyone out there using Netskrt CDN?  I mean, installed in your
>     network
>     for content delivery to your customers.  I understand Netskrt
>     provides
>     caching for some well known online video streaming services... just
>     wondering if there are any network operators that have worked with
>     Netskrt and deployed their caching servers in your networks and what
>     have you thought about it?  What Internet uplink savings are you
>     seeing?
>
>     Netskrt - https://www.netskrt.io/
>
>
>     -- 
>     -Aaron
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-Aaron