Netflix Hoping For Free Network Access From ISPs

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday July 16, 2015 @12:14AM from the working-together dept.

sabri writes: Netflix soared on Wall Street today after their earnings announcement. They also stated that they hope to get more free network access arrangements (aka "free peering"). Fortune reports: "Netflix hopes the Charter peering pledge could serve not only its own interests, but establish an industry-wide practice for internet TV. Hastings said he hopes free peering will spare the emerging industry from the sort of battles that continue to plague the cable TV industry industry, in which stations go dark whenever distributor and content owner haggle over a 'retransmission' price."

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Re:Wouldn't apply to Netflix by Anonymous Coward · 2015-07-16 00:29 · Score: 2, Insightful

Addendum:
Netflix wants free peering & Rackspace because they lessen the load on the ISP's Network via custom Proxies.
Basically: "Your Customers get faster Netflix while the needed external Bandwidth is reduced."
"You get the Hardware & Software & Maintenance for this for free if you put this Box in your internal Network."