Re: Netskrt - ISP-colo CDN

[Aaron Gould <aaron1 () gvtc com>]

Thanks ... that svta caching sounds interesting.  i watched the 
presentation, but don't understand how it's used by ISP's that want to 
benefit from it.

-Aaron

On 4/4/2024 5:14 PM, John Stitt 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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> On 4/4/2024 4:12 PM, Eric Dugas wrote:
>
>     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.
>
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>     Eric
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>     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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