Netflix's Ken Florance: The Man Who Keeps the Video Streaming

http://mobile.businessweek.com/articles/2014-07-24/netflixs-content-delivery-chief-endures-isp-streaming-fees

by yarapavan • 12 years ago

25 19 12 years ago

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The author of the article is following the lazy and tired "Point at that hippie and laugh" formula, complete with a "Right on, man" ending. Maybe that's expected for a mainstream publication like Businessweek?

Other than that, the article is interesting.

pyre3• 12 years ago

Didn't you get the New Media Strategy Memo? You kick up controversy and write as aggressively / polarized as possible and you gain page-views (i.e. money) as people on both sides come to read the article before running off to social media sites to argue endlessly about it.

proksoup• 12 years ago

Is an improvement from people having these disparate opinions and not discussing them at all I hope.

forgottenpass• 12 years ago

It's the norm when writing about someone in a group that is socially acceptable to openly deride.

The only bit unique to Businessweek is that their editorial voice serves a market that accepts this flavor of derision. The difference between your standards and theirs is the only reason this stood out at all.

lukasm• 12 years ago

HTTP? What does it mean? all HTTP requests except for the following domain?

eightofdiamonds• 12 years ago

I wondering the same thing myself. I did a bit of searching and found this: http://allthingsd.com/20130514/netflix-still-eats-a-third-of...

According to that article it does mean all HTTP traffic other than the specific sources listed in the chart.

hackerguy0217• 12 years ago

I think the FCC should get involved and ask the simple question of why can't ISP's use Netflix open connect .. as it seems that would fix a ton of problems the ISP are having with netflix incoming traffic.

twoodfin2• 12 years ago

It doesn't really solve the fundamental issue: Because of the volume of traffic Netflix generates, ISPs are highly sensitive to the size of Netflix's audience and the bitrates Netflix chooses to stream. Both of those have the potential to grow faster than their capability (or desire) to expand the capacity of their networks.

pyre3• 12 years ago

... on the other hand, the ISPs wouldn't be complaining about their own video-streaming offerings expanding exponentially. The conflict-of-interest in this whole back-and-forth between Netflix and large ISPs is so palpable that you can almost taste it (very bitter :P).

roc• 12 years ago

If that was the fundamental issue, ISPs would be talking about provider-agnostic throttling of usage to protect network stability and performance during periods of high utilization.

Which is something they already do.

What they're actually talking about, Re: Net Neutrality, is throttling a particular provider, regardless of the usage level of the network or the total traffic being streamed by that provider.

alayne• 12 years ago

Here's the non mobile link: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-07-24/netflixs-con...

stevengg• 12 years ago

talk netflix gave at NYCBSDCon NYCBSDCon 2014: Serving one-third of the Internet via FreeBSD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL5U4wr86L4

Netflix's Ken Florance: The Man Who Keeps the Video Streaming

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