[AusNOG] Transparent Caching For Residential ISPs

[Peter Tiggerdine]

Isn't peering really about increasing profit margins? Don't get me
wrong I don't begrudge any company doing it. We're collectively not
charities and most of us have shareholders to answer too (wife,
family, investment banks).



On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 11:02 PM, Alastair Waddell
<awaddell at legion.com.au> wrote:
> I see that Netflix is responsible for 30% of traffic in the US. Netflix and
> YouTube together are responsible for > 50%
> http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/nov/11/netflix-youtube-dominate-us-internet-traffic
>
> But I also hear that Netflix does not allow ISPs to cache, if indeed it’s
> technically possible.
>
> Netflix require you to use Open Connect https://www.netflix.com/openconnect
> - if you qualify.
>
> On another note, for those pulling content via peer routes to CDNs etc, will
> ISPs stop offering peered content for free and begin differentiated billing
> with something more representative of the cost of getting that content
> across the NBN to the customer?
>
>
> Regards,
> Alastair
>
>
> On 4 Jun 2014, at 9:37 pm, Mark Currie <MCurrie at laserfast.com.au> wrote:
>
> Have a look at Superlumin Networks Nemesis (cool name!)..it will cache
> streaming content, including Youtube, Netflix etc..Not much presence in
> Australia at the moment, but a few schools and a couple of Uni’s (including
> University of Western Australia) use it and generally are getting around 40%
> hit rates..
>
> It uses a specialized Cache Object Store (COS) file system originally
> developed to run on Netware for Novell by Drew Major, but now totally
> rewritten as a native 64bit platform integrated on Suse Linux and extreme
> scalability (64 bit, 64 CPU, 16Tb Memory, 64 disk channels, 100 million
> cache objects)
>
> Mark Currie
>
>
> From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of James
> Mcintosh
> Sent: Wednesday, 4 June 2014 5:42 PM
> To: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
> Subject: [AusNOG] Transparent Caching For Residential ISPs
>
> - Worth it?
>
> - What percentage of your traffic comes off the cache?
>
> - What solution are you using? Interested in both commercial and open
> solutions.
>
> - Any other thoughts or comments
>
>
>
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