Re: Netskrt - ISP-colo CDN

[Aaron Gould <aaron1 () gvtc com>]

I've had my dual-100g-connected Amazon ACEv2 caches for over a year 
now.  With my ~55,000 subs I saw every Thursday night for NFL/TNF usage 
at 15 gbps X2 (so 30 gbps total) and one day in late November 
(thanksgiving probably) I saw 25 gbps x2 (so 50 gbps) usage!

-Aaron

On 4/4/2024 6:08 PM, Paul Bradford wrote:
> I have some on my network.  I don't think they populate content from 
> their own cdn network, but it comes from Amazon.   interestingly for 
> the NFL super bowl, while paramount+ streamed the game, on Amazon 
> Prime Video you could "Watch super bowl on paramount+ Via Prime.". 
>  that did actually drive users to using the netskrt caches.
>
> They seem to work OK.  TNF in 6 months will tell us more.  :)
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 4, 2024 at 6:14 PM John Stitt <jstitt () hop-electric com> wrote:
>
>     The website says they are part of the Streaming Video Technology
>     Alliance.
>
>     I wonder if this is a prepackaged Open Cache box.
>
>     https://opencaching.svta.org/
>
>     We also don’t appear to have had any traffic from them.  Not much
>     on the peeringdb for the USA ASN either.
>
>     BGP.tools shows they have upstreams with each ASN, and are on Ohio
>     IX with AS53471, but not really any peers anywhere.  Looks like
>     Cogent and Zayo for upstreams and only peer I see is AS1239
>     (Sprint Wireline (Cogent))
>
>     John Stitt
>
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>     *Subject:* Re: Netskrt - ISP-colo CDN
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>     -Aaron
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>     On 4/4/2024 4:12 PM, Eric Dugas wrote:
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>         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/
>
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>             -Aaron
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