On 13-05-15 09:02, Brett Frankenberger wrote:
So it's only on the Internet if it uses a provider's transit capacity?
I made the statement in a context of "the internet is crumbling under the Netflix load". There have been many media reports over the years of the internet unable to cope with the explosion of traffic. When a content provider delivers content at an ISP's doorstep, it basically bypasses "the internet" (the big cloud). I am fully aware that it is still technically the internet. But the load is not on "the internet" but rathers localised to particular individual networks within the internet. The point here is that the internet (as a whole) has adapted to the likes of Netflix and Youtube who are able to deliver huge amounts of data without "the internet" crumbling.