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Re:AT&T Wireless traffic shaping apparently making some webs... by dspillett on Sunday April 16, 2023 @05:05PM (#35594261)
> Now that my ISP bundles Netflix subscription into their internet plans, access to netflix and fast.com now practically saturate the fiber link

They may have an ISP-local netflix cache, from Netflix themselves not some home-grown hack, so they can achieve that with some reliability without it costing as much as it otherwise would for bandwidth peering.

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Re:AT&T Wireless traffic shaping apparently making some webs... by tiedieconderoga on Sunday April 16, 2023 @09:30PM (#35595856)
Netflix distributes "red boxes" to ISPs which are exactly that: edge content caches.

(PDF): https://openconnect.netflix.com/Open-Connect-Briefing-Paper....

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