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Re:FCC weakens net neutrality rule in a prelude to larger ro... by woah on Friday February 24, 2017 @03:16PM (#13727445)
I asked this in another thread a few days ago, but why are edge servers and CDNs not a violation of "net neutrality"? If you've got an edge server on an ISP, and are paying extra for a leased line from your main data center to that server, you are effectively paying the ISP an additional fee for priority over other traffic on their hardware.
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Re:FCC weakens net neutrality rule in a prelude to larger ro... by grandalf on Friday February 24, 2017 @04:15PM (#13727968)
To the end customer it's not priority, consider the two cases:

customer:

GET www.site.com/images/rounded_corner.gif

first hop to ISP, then n hops to www.site.com

vs

GET cdn001.site.com/images/rounded_corner.gif

first hop to ISP, then second hop to cdn001

The overhead takes place in the routing mechanism, not in the prioritization mechanism. In both cases, it costs the ISP the same amount to send the data back to the customer. The data is not prioritized, it just happens to be available in fewer hops, which is often (but is not necessarily) faster. A CDN could exist that imposed greater latency in exchange for an improvement elsewhere, such as reliability.

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