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Re:Netflix Is Now Available Around the World by devhxinc on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @01:47PM (#10852622)
I wonder what the user experience will be since a good experience relies on content loading quickly through CDNs. Netflix mainly uses AWS, Akamai, Limelight and Level 3 along with its own CDN to deliver content. The majority of the new countries do not have local CDN edge nodes. (This is super frustrating when developing for African and some Asian countries)

It seems Netflix has an uphill battle ahead with regards to content licensing and content delivery.

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Re:Netflix Is Now Available Around the World by virtuallynathan on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @02:07PM (#10852770)
Netflix mostly uses their own CDN now (AS2906) with PoPs all over the world. AWS runs the non-CDN infrastructure. I'd guess they may use the "local" CDN in some markets while they find interconnection hubs and build out their PoPs.
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Re:Netflix Is Now Available Around the World by jfroma on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @01:57PM (#10852692)
As far as I know netflix has an open appliance for ISP [1] (internet service providers). I think most of the ISP will care about this when the usage increase, because it will reduce the upstream bandwitch usage.

I haven't dig into it but I am pretty sure that even here in Argentina, ISP are using this thing, because it works incredible fast for HD content. Youtube might use something similar.

[1]: https://openconnect.netflix.com/

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