<div dir="ltr"><div>Yep, Valve are very open about allowing operators run their own internal "SteamPipe" CDN nodes or caching in some other manner.</div><div><br></div>Also, AS32590 (Valve Corp) peers direct on Equinix Sydney now which is where I see <a href="http://valve5.cs.steampowered.com/" target="_blank">Valve5.cs.steampowered.com</a> and <a href="http://valve5.cs.steampowered.com/" target="_blank">Valve6.cs.steampowered.com</a><div>
<br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Steve<br><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 12:42 AM, Cameron Daniel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cdaniel@nurve.com.au" target="_blank">cdaniel@nurve.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">

Absolutely correct.<br>
<br>
Last time I spoke to Valve about Steam content (at a previous employer) they were pretty open about how it's being delivered and how it can be cached if you want to go that route.<br>
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That said, you should be able to pick up a reasonable portion of it through Highwinds if you're on any of the IXPs (Megaport, NSW-IX, PIPE, Equinix).<div><br>
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On 2013-09-17 9:29 pm, Brett Wagstaff wrote:<br>
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Not impossible at all, actually quite easy if you know what you're<br>
doing. I've got a cache server sitting right here with 130+<br>
games/tools cached locally on it, and same server + others were used<br>
at PAX AU this year :) - That been said, you're far better off<br>
contacting valve directly and speaking to them.<br>
<br>
Brett.<br>
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On 17 September 2013 21:03, Damian Guppy <<a href="mailto:the.damo@gmail.com" target="_blank">the.damo@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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Hey Daniel,<br>
<br>
Around June / July this year valve migrated off of their old<br>
distribution system based around proprietary 'steam cache' servers<br>
to what they call "SteamPipe" which is a HTTP based CDN. When I last<br>
checked in early august only 10% or less traffic continued over the<br>
old steamcache system.<br>
<br>
Steampipe itself is broken into 2 subsystems - Valves in house HTTP<br>
CDN and third party CDN's. The traffic split between these two<br>
systems is approximately 67% to 33% when i last looked. Valves in<br>
house system are all servers that fall below the subdomain of<br></div>
*.<a href="http://cs.steampowered.com" target="_blank">cs.steampowered.com</a> [2] and australia currently hosts 3 of these<br>
servers - <a href="http://Valve217.cs.steampowered.com" target="_blank">Valve217.cs.steampowered.com</a> [3],<br>
<a href="http://Valve5.cs.steampowered.com" target="_blank">Valve5.cs.steampowered.com</a> [4] and <a href="http://Valve6.cs.steampowered.com" target="_blank">Valve6.cs.steampowered.com</a> [5].<div><br>
The third party system is currently a mix of 6 vendors at last check<br></div>
using the naming system content*.<a href="http://steampowered.com" target="_blank">steampowered.com</a> [6]. Each of these<div><br>
content 'servers' is mapped to a different global CDN and each one<br>
serves a different set of content - IIRC content1 servers<br>
authentication and store traffic, and content 3 and content7 serve<br>
game files. Content7 is the namespace for Akamai, Content1 is<br>
Limelight, 2 is Footprint, 3 is HighWinds, 4 is EdgeCast, and 5 is<br>
Amazon. 6 is now decommissioned and no longer in rotation.<br>
<br>
In short, it is basically impossible for any consumer ISP to cache<br>
all of steam, the best they can do is host a bunch of the third<br>
party CDN's such as akamai and hope to get lucky and serve maybe 40%<br>
of steams traffic (although in my experience ISP's dont count akamai<br>
as freezone / unmetered)<br>
<br>
--Damian<br>
<br>
On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 6:47 PM, Daniel Watson<br>
<<a href="mailto:daniel@glovine.com.au" target="_blank">daniel@glovine.com.au</a>> wrote:<br>
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Hi Guys<br>
<br>
I was wondering if anybody on-list may know of any other Steam<br>
content providers other then the obvious IINET, Internode or<br>
Telstra based services run by those types of ISP's? and if they<br>
know the URL's?<br>
<br>
Daniel<br>
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