Re:How a group of neighbors created their own Internet service
by grecy on Monday November 02, 2015 @12:51AM
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> On a separate note, I wonder how much Netflix's and YouTube's CDN boxes cost, given that Netflix and YouTube tend to subsidize them
I worked at a large ISP for 4 years, and for us, both the YouTube and Netflix CDN boxes were free.
However, the boxes consume a massive amount of traffic to keep themselves in sync. For us, YouTube wasn't worth having until we had over 15,000 customers, and we still don't have a NetFlix box because it syncs the entire NetFlix catalog and all changes, every 24 hours, so they actually use less traffic not having one.
I worked at a large ISP for 4 years, and for us, both the YouTube and Netflix CDN boxes were free.
However, the boxes consume a massive amount of traffic to keep themselves in sync. For us, YouTube wasn't worth having until we had over 15,000 customers, and we still don't have a NetFlix box because it syncs the entire NetFlix catalog and all changes, every 24 hours, so they actually use less traffic not having one.