Re: Overall Netflix bandwidth usage numbers on a network?

[Joel Jaeggli <joelja () bogus com>]

Netflix uses CDNs for content delivery and the platform runs in EC2. What would peering with them achieve?

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On Dec 11, 2011, at 18:06, Faisal Imtiaz <faisal () snappydsl net> wrote:

> Which leads to a question to be asked...
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> Is netflix willing to peer directly with ISP / NSP's ?
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> Regards.
>
> Faisal Imtiaz
> Snappy Internet&  Telecom
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>
> On 12/11/2011 7:29 PM, Dave Temkin wrote:
> > Feel free to contact peering@netflix<dot>com - we're happy to provide you with delivery statistics for traffic 
> > terminating on your network.
> >
> > Regards,
> > -Dave Temkin
> > Netflix
> >
> > On 12/7/11 8:57 AM, Blake Hudson wrote:
> > > Yeah, that's an interesting one. We currently utilize netflow for this, but you also need to consider that netflix 
> > > streaming is just port 80 www traffic. Because netflix uses CDNs, its difficult to pin down the traffic to specific 
> > > hosts in the CDN and say that this traffic was netflix, while this traffic was the latest windows update (remember 
> > > this is often a shared hosting platform). We've done our own testing and have come to a good solution which uses a 
> > > combination of nbar, packet marking, and netflow to come to a conclusion. On a ~160Mbps link, netflix peaks out 
> > > between 30-50Mbps around 8-10PM each evening. The rest of the traffic is predominantly other forms of HTTP traffic 
> > > (including other video streaming services).
> > >
> > >
> > > Martin Hepworth wrote the following on 12/3/2011 2:36 AM:
> > > > Also checkout Adrian Cockcroft presentations on their architecture which
> > > > describes how they use aws and CDns etc
> > > >
> > > > Martin