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Re: Google/Youtube problems


From: "Nick Olsen" <nick () flhsi com>
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 16:51:59 -0500

I stand corrected. That's what I get for going off memory.

Nick Olsen
Network Operations (855) FLSPEED  x106

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 From: "Scott Whyte" <swhyte () gmail com>
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2012 4:48 PM
To: nick () flhsi com
Subject: Re: Google/Youtube problems

On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 11:10 AM, Nick Olsen <nick () flhsi com> wrote:
I think this would be true if they offered some form of paid peering.

Google want's a good fast route to your customers, And your customers 
want
a good fast route to Google.

IF Google ran its transit at or near congestion. This could degrade your
customers performance. After so long, You'd contact Google and attempt 
to
troubleshoot. And they would say if you want good peering with them, You
should pay them to peer. Where you could control just how much traffic 
was
on your port and expand it if needed. Pretty sure this was Comcast and
level3/Netflix did. But Comcast had the winning leverage (more eyeballs) 
in
the discussion.

But, I don't think Google does this. My knowledge on AS15169 is limited.
But I recall them having a very strict peering policy.

Strict?  Really?
https://peering.google.com/about/peering_policy.html


Nick Olsen
Network Operations (855) FLSPEED  x106

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 From: "Joly MacFie" <joly () punkcast com>
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2012 1:21 PM
To: "joel jaeggli" <joelja () bogus com>
Subject: Re: Google/Youtube problems

WIth my limited understanding of such topics I've long been confused by
something I read a couple of years back - in an Arbor report perhaps - 
to
the effect that by being the originator of so much traffic, and as they
built out their own network, Google were making money on transit.

Can anyone elaborate or refute?

On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 11:55 AM, joel jaeggli <joelja () bogus com> wrote:

On 11/19/12 5:59 AM, Saku Ytti wrote:

What I'm trying to say, I can't see youtube generating anywhere nearly
enough revenue who shift 10% (or more) of Internet. And to explain 
this
conundrum to myself, I've speculated accounting magic (which I'd frown
upon) and leveraging market position to get free capacity (which is 
ok,
I'd
do the same, had I the leverage)

Or there's a simpler explanation. Which is that it makes money either
directly or as part of a salubrious interaction with other google
properties.

They had about 2.5Billion left over for their trouble in the quarter
ending 9/30 which isn't too shabby on a gross of 14 billion.



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