tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498847203183398.post1590859186382078613..comments2024-03-28T09:19:27.451+00:00Comments on RevK<sup>®</sup>'s ramblings: Pushing the limitsRevKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12369263214193333422noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498847203183398.post-13262123752851309242017-11-19T23:58:41.793+00:002017-11-19T23:58:41.793+00:00Exactly.
For arguments sake lets say A+A do 5Gbps...Exactly.<br /><br />For arguments sake lets say A+A do 5Gbps of traffic 95%ile from Netflix, making them eligible for caches (probably they don't yet).<br /><br />The cost of a LINX PI intersite pair is £200/month which can be run at 10G, 40G, 100G or in future higher. LONAP 10G will be £300/month from January plus around £25/month for the XC (assuming TH). The cost of hosting just one 600W 4u cache in Telehouse North or HEX is likely to be well, around £300/month. <br />Netflix usually want you to take two for redundancy and additional content so really you are talking £600/month. A Private 10G link in Telehouse is going to be <=£200/month. It's more expensive. Why bother, you are just paying Netflixes hosting fees for them! Why should you? That is their job :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498847203183398.post-36155175884150429932017-11-19T22:18:08.829+00:002017-11-19T22:18:08.829+00:00The problem is switching to a local cache only sav...The problem is switching to a local cache only saves on peering bandwidth (LoNAP in this case, IIRC?), which runs £300 per 10G port per month - no saving on the BT or TalkTalk backhaul bandwidth, which is dramatically more expensive!<br /><br />For Sky, yes, it's slightly cheaper to have the boxes local than on the far end of a LoNAP link or private peering cross-connect, so makes sense - but the big cost savings are to Netflix, not the ISP.jas88https://www.blogger.com/profile/05563592458314214904noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498847203183398.post-14656699999825506282017-11-18T10:40:26.113+00:002017-11-18T10:40:26.113+00:00There are several stages for things like that, and...There are several stages for things like that, and we are well aware of that. The transit and peering are generally not the issue or cost but that will happen eventually.RevKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12369263214193333422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498847203183398.post-16901227576604595692017-11-18T10:34:15.516+00:002017-11-18T10:34:15.516+00:00Netflix are normally very keen to put their CDN bo...Netflix are normally very keen to put their CDN boxes on ISPs internal networks - Sky has 18 Netflix CDNs on their network last time I looked.<br /><br />Perhaps you should consider contacting them? After all they can only say no and the external bandwidth saved is fairly staggering (Sky wouldn't be offering a competitor "hosting" if it didn't make lots of financial sense).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498847203183398.post-38469812420894101372017-11-17T09:31:18.796+00:002017-11-17T09:31:18.796+00:00When I first gained access to the Internet in the ...When I first gained access to the Internet in the early 90s via my employer, they had a 64k link to, I think, UCL and there was only a 64 k satellite link to the US. Those were the days of Gopher and DEC's ftpmail server in California - software source packages arriving overnight as 60 or 70 uuencoded e-mails! Sorry, this sounds a bit like a 4 Yorkshiremen sketch...<br />John Sagernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498847203183398.post-7281386464628557502017-11-17T08:46:20.892+00:002017-11-17T08:46:20.892+00:00Heh, I remember in about 2000, being in the Army a...Heh, I remember in about 2000, being in the Army and being the first one in the regiment to get consent to get a phone line installed in his barrack room. I then upgraded it to home highway, 64kbit was bliss. I rarely used 128kbit due to call charges, but it paid for itself as I charged my mates to share it via ethernet... there were about 5 of us using that connection, and it still seemed fast until someone opened Kazaa or Limewire.<br /><br />How times have changed.rtho782https://www.blogger.com/profile/02052870855136709228noreply@blogger.com