Re: Providers pay too
Let's put it simply.
I go and slap a server into a data-centre. I pay that data-centre for the power usage and net connection, which they pay for via various peering arrangements with companies like Level3.
A customer of mine wants to connect to my server, so they sign up to an ISP and pay for the data they use, and that ISP then pays to peer with companies like Level3. My customer can then access my server.
What Netflix is saying - we already pay to peer with people like Level3, so why should we pay the ISP of the customer accessing us? No-one else does!
They even go one step further and provide free caching hardware to stick into peering locations, so data is going the shortest distance possible. Yet people are saying they should still pay even more.
I entirely agree with Netflix on this.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
