[AusNOG] Transparent Caching For Residential ISPs

[James Hodgkinson]

Profit's a benefit of utilising shorter distances to what people want, by
making use of better ways of doing things... why jump out across a general
(and likely costly) transit link when you can get a fat pipe to the content?

But then I've never really understood *any* delay with accessing peering
when it's available....


On 5 June 2014 11:41, Peter Tiggerdine <ptiggerdine at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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> > Legion Internet
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