Hey Patrick, Thanks for your prompt response. Yes, we are trying to determine where/how we receive it ... not necessarily influence it, as there isn't so much we can do there as Netflix' egress policy is theirs and theirs alone (interestingly, nobody has communities to influence Netflix' AS2906 traffic). We cannot peer directly with Netflix as their openconnect statement requires 2gbps minimum, and mentions elsewhere that the like 5+. We aren't at 2gbps yet, and we are nowhere near one of their POPs -- it is way cheaper to buy 2-3gbps of cheap transit than it is to buy 2-3gbps of transport from Denver to LA. As mentioned, my notes to peering@netflix.com have gone unanswered for the holidays (not unexpected), so I thought I'd ping the hive mind for some info in the meantime. Cheers, Randal On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Patrick W. Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net>wrote:
On Dec 27, 2012, at 13:19 , randal k <nanog@data102.com> wrote:
I work at a datacenter in southern Colorado that is the upstream bandwidth provider for several regional ISPs. We have been investigating our ever-growing bandwidth usage and have found that out of transits (Level3,Cogent,HE) that Netflix always seems to come in via Hurricane Electric. (We move ~1.4gbps to Netflix, and are thus not a candidate for peering. And they have no POP close.)
Your statement about peering makes no sense. You are trying to engineer where their traffic comes and yet you refuse to have a direct connection which would give you full control? Weird.......
I tested this by advertising a /24 across all providers, then selectively removed the advertisement to certain carriers to see where the bandwidth goes. In order, it appears that if there is a HE route, Netflix uses it, period. If there isn't, it prefers Level3, and Cogent comes last.
Completely unsurprising.
Since Netflix is a big hunk of our bandwidth (and obviously makes our customers happy), we are included to buy some more HE. However, if Netflix decides that they want to randomly switch to, say, Cogent, we may be under a year-long bandwidth contract that isn't particularly valuable anymore.
With all of that, I am interested in finding out of any knowledge about Netflix transit preferences, be it inside information, anecdotal, or otherwise. I did email peering@ but haven't heard back, thus the public question.
Why don't you ask Netflix?
And why not ask them for kit to put on-net? < https://signup.netflix.com/openconnect>
-- TTFN, patrick