Netflix Launches Its Own Content Delivery Network

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday June 5, 2012 @02:08PM from the putting-on-a-different-hat dept.

1sockchuck writes "Netflix has launched its own content delivery network to manage data delivery for its streaming video service. ISPs can choose to host caching appliances in their data centers, or peer with Netflix at Internet Exchanges. 'Netflix will provide either form of access at no cost to the ISP,' it said. As part of Open Connect, Netflix is sharing its hardware appliance design and the open source software components of the server. Does this mean Armageddon for the CDNs currently serving Akamai? Not really, according to analysts, citing the leverage Netflix had in dealing with providers."

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Re:What about Comcast? by Bengie · 2012-06-05 14:53 · Score: 4, Informative

The actual problem is Comcast's congestion is in the last mile. No amount of ISP caching will reduce last-mile congestion.
FreeBSD by Jon+Stone · 2012-06-05 19:01 · Score: 5, Informative

All these posts and no-one has mentioned it runs on FreeBSD?
Netflix's New Peering Appliance Uses FreeBSD