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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. "changing the underlying Internet infrastructure" by asshole+felcher · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Seems a bit dramatic. Google and Netflix use enough bandwidth that they can set up their own CDN. End of Story. If a small competitor comes along, they won't have the money to set up their own CDN, but LLNW, Akamai, and Level3 won't turn them down.