Re: Looks like the ISP wants 2 bites of the cherry
Well, when I was running a CDN we'd put the hardware in - they'd pay for power/cooling.
It makes a huge amount of sense from both parties, since you only deliver once to the cache, and don't pay central bandwidth fees for all the deliveries downstream, and the ISP obviously gets a huge benefit as well.
So both save on bandwidth costs - the ISP by more than enough to pay for the power.
The CDN also gets to provide a better service to it's customers in that region.