Re: Netskrt - ISP-colo CDN

[Mike Hammett <nanog () ics-il net>]

It's free. 




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Mike Hammett 
Intelligent Computing Solutions 

Midwest Internet Exchange 

The Brothers WISP 

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From: "Eric Dugas via NANOG" <nanog () nanog org> 
To: "Aaron Gould" <aaron1 () gvtc com> 
Cc: nanog () nanog org 
Sent: Thursday, April 4, 2024 4:12:38 PM 
Subject: Re: Netskrt - ISP-colo CDN 


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 ) 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. 


Eric 


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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-Aaron