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Re:Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days by cosmodisk on Thursday March 19, 2020 @06:36PM (#22632487)
That's quite something when a streaming service can go to the ISP with their hardware...
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Re:Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days by spyspy on Thursday March 19, 2020 @06:42PM (#22632530)
This is common for any company that operates a CDN. It just so happens Netflix is a big enough content deliverer that they run their own network rather than pay to use someone else’s.
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Re:Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days by rorykoehler on Friday March 20, 2020 @01:12AM (#22635126)
I was involved in starting a streaming service in SE Asia and the costs of 3rd party edge caching (Akamai etc) were significant. So much so that it made the business model non-viable without work arounds. Eventually we partnered with ISPs and piggybacked their edge caches.
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Re:Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days by megablast on Thursday March 19, 2020 @06:45PM (#22632560)
Pretty common.
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