Re: Netskrt - ISP-colo CDN

[Paul Bradford <pbradford () breezeline com>]

I have some on my network.  I don't think they populate content from their
own cdn network, but it comes from Amazon.   interestingly for the NFL
super bowl, while paramount+ streamed the game, on Amazon Prime Video you
could "Watch super bowl on paramount+ Via Prime.".  that did actually drive
users to using the netskrt caches.

They seem to work OK.  TNF in 6 months will tell us more.  :)



On Thu, Apr 4, 2024 at 6:14 PM John Stitt <jstitt () hop-electric com> wrote:

> The website says they are part of the Streaming Video Technology Alliance.
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> I wonder if this is a prepackaged Open Cache box.
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> https://opencaching.svta.org/
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> We also don’t appear to have had any traffic from them.  Not much on the
> peeringdb for the USA ASN either.
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> 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))
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> On 4/4/2024 4:12 PM, Eric Dugas wrote:
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> That name rang a bell so I looked up my emails.
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> 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.".
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> 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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> On Thu, Apr 4, 2024 at 4:00 PM Aaron Gould <aaron1 () gvtc com> wrote:
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> 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?
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> Netskrt - https://www.netskrt.io/
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