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Re:Netflix begins the deployment of their own content delive... by jedberg on Wednesday June 06, 2012 @09:04PM (#4077035)
Your calculation doesn't account for the artificial barriers that some ISPs put up by charging the CDNs to peer with them (see Comcast and Level 3).
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Re:Netflix begins the deployment of their own content delive... by wmf on Wednesday June 06, 2012 @09:34PM (#4077134)
Isn't that orthogonal to the choice between serving from the edge or from a single mega-datacenter?
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