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Netflix and Google Make Land Grab On Edge of Internet

Posted by Soulskill on from the thar-be-gold-in-them-thar-datacenters dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In an end-run around slow Internet backbone providers, Netflix and Google (plus a dozen more large content giants) are in a bitter fight to deploy servers and dominate the consumer edge of the Internet. This Wired article provides some of the first graphics of this fight and how it is changing the underlying Internet infrastructure. The source of the article (DeepField blog post) also has some pretty interesting commentary."

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  1. Quote from the article by Wingman+5 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    This could help companies like Netflix get high definition video to consumers, and it could possibly bring down subscription rates for high speed internet, subsidized by the content providers.

    BWHAHAHAHA!

    Thanks for that, I needed a good laugh.