<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Jared,<br></div>The article mentions NBN Chairman Ziggy Switkowski wanting to contribute to discussions around CDNs of content providers deployed into ISPs, notably for Google and Netflix.<br><br></div>To the naive eye, they're both providing ISPs "free" bandwidth. There's no cost forwarded to the end user. But the consequences of this, for other content providers, is that Google and Netflix, can provide a better user experience.<br><br></div>Now that's a problem for 2 classes of providers.<br></div>1 - those competing in the content sphere - for Google, other search providers, for Netflix, other VoD providers. If you're an innovator in the search engine or VoD space, existing CDNs significantly up the barriers to entry.<br></div><br>2 - those providing a different service, so they're not direct competitors, but where their traffic is of higher value to the user, (and consequently the service provider would be willing to pay for a better level of service), but under net neutrality rules, should receive the same treatment. If users can get all the Netflix they need through CDNs, there won't be the scale of transit capacity as if there were no CDNs, so higher value content, such as voice and video, wouldn't get resourcing to the same scale.<br><br></div>Kind regards<br><br></div>Paul Wilkins<br><div><div><div><br><br><br><br><div><div><div><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 24 November 2015 at 22:14, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ausftth@mail.com" target="_blank">ausftth@mail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Paul,<br>
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Could you please explain what you mean with the below text. Preferrably with some real world examples.<br>
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> In my opinion, what's being discussed in the political sphere, is where<br>
> consolidation of transit by large content providers, results in their<br>
> content being treated preferentially.<br>
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</span>Jared<br>
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