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Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix


From: joel jaeggli <joelja () bogus com>
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 11:39:48 -0700

On 7/11/14 11:20 AM, Blake Hudson wrote:

Verizon Policy Blog wrote:

There was, however, congestion at the interconnection link to the
edge of our network (the border router) used by the transit providers
chosen by Netflix to deliver video traffic to Verizon’s network.

In what world does Netflix choose a transit provider into someone
else's network? I'm pretty sure that Verizon chooses who it peers with
and how it announces BGP prefixes. This means that Verizon is largely
in control of traffic engineering at its borders. If one of those
transit providers is congested, this is something Verizon, as a
responsible network operator, is surely aware of and has the
capability to resolve. This is difficult, if even possible, for a
source network operator to work around.

CDN's choose which exit the use all the time, it's kinda the raison de etré.

If a pop has 174 3356 2914 7992 transit(s) chances are they can use any
one of them or all of them to get to foo other large transit as.

This post is complete technical FUD.

--Blake



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