Despite Comcast-Netflix deal, settlement-free peering is alive and well

http://www.internap.com/2014/03/07/despite-comcast-netflix-deal-settlement-free-peering-alive-well/

by wavesound • 12 years ago

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njyx• 12 years ago

The article isn't wrong, but it's a new situation when content providers start paying to peer explicitly. Netflix and other large players already pay for CDN structures to get content close to the last mile. Now they are going to be paying for the last mile in some sense also.

Fine for Netflix to do, but if prices rise and the thresholds where this applies lower, new services will get shut down due to cost.

Hopefully some ISPs will not charge and market "fast access to whatever you want" and not "fast access to whatever we chose based on what they paid").

ghshephard2• 12 years ago

The entire point of the Netflix/Comcast paid peering arrangement was that Netflix didn't want to pay a "CDN structures to get content close to the last mile." If they had paid a CDN for content delivery to Comcast's network (as thousands of other companies do), then none of this would have ever developed. Netflix was just trying to find the cheapest possible way of getting the content that they deliver, to the eyeballs that were willing to pay for it. The only way that "ISPs will not charge" is if we manage to get broadband competition in enough markets in the United States so that Quality of Service becomes a differentiation.

Karunamon• 12 years ago

Didn't Netflix offer to put their CDN machines inside of Comcast and were flat out turned down?

dfc• 12 years ago

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Despite Comcast-Netflix deal, settlement-free peering is alive and well

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