On May 18, 2011, at 3:06 AM, Leigh Porter wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: Carl Rosevear [mailto:crosevear@skytap.com]
"Eating Up" sounds so overweight and unhealthy. Since a good number of us get paid for delivering bits, isn't this a good thing? Always glad to see bits and dollars flowing into the Internet, personally. However must express severe dissatisfaction with the topic of the thread a while ago referencing Comcast trying to charge providers for delivery over their network. Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm pretty happy with the current model... even if it means a $5/month residential rate hike (or something).
--C
Well it depends if Netflix pay for the bandwidth they use or if they get it all for free with non settlement peering. If, suddenly, your business model breaks because of a huge demand for high bandwidth services by your customers then either you need to charge your customers more or Netflix (or whoever) need to share the pie.
Netflix is hosted in ec2 and they use a lot of CDN. not sure that it's germain to the question of access to customers to measure which direction the money changes hands
-- Leigh Porter
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