Re: Overall Netflix bandwidth usage numbers on a network?

[Blake Hudson <blake () ispn net>]

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Dave Temkin wrote the following on 12/11/2011 6:29 PM:
> 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