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Netflix Confirms Deal For Access To Verizon's Network

Posted by timothy on from the you-scratcha-my-back dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Netflix [on Monday] confirmed that it has reached a deal to gain itself access to Verizon's network. This deal is similar to the one that Netflix already made with Comcast and should improve streaming video quality for Verizon customers. Readers should note that Netflix is paying Verizon and Comcast only to gain access to its networks by by-passing third-party transit providers like Cogent and Level 3. If the FCC's new proposal passes, ISPs like Verizon and Comcast could also charge Netflix for faster direct connections to its customers over the last mile."

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  1. web hosting isn't free by raymorris · · Score: 0, Troll

    Check the IETF standards discussions for IPv6 and HTTP back in the 1990s. You might see that I've been groking (and designing) this internet thing for a while.

    Where you're being tricked is that you don't realize Netflix is basically just asking for free web hosting. Free hosting for the highest bandwidth site in the world. Netflix is NOT a peer of Verizon, so their attempt to call their upstream connection "peering" is misleading.

    You pay Verizon to connect YOU to the internet. Netflix wants to pay nobody to connect them to the internet. They wanted Verizon to provide them with free bandwidth by providing multi-gigabit connections for free. Sorry Netflix, if you want gigabits of upstream bandwidth you have to pay for it, just like the rest of us.