<div dir="ltr">Hello Barry,<br><br><div class="gmail_extra">Thanks for breaking this down to a novice like me with an actual scenario. Kindly find a few comments inset<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 6:30 PM, Barry Shein <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bzs@world.std.com" target="_blank">bzs@world.std.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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What started this recent kerfuffle was Comcast refusing to provide<br>
more ports to Level 3, Netflix uses Level 3 (it's an ISP brand, Level<br>
3 Corporation.) Ports are bandwidth, essentially.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Okay this is clear, so Level 3 is somewhat the ISP (network based) brand of Netflix<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Netflix sells content, Comcast sells content and "last mile" (end user<br>
/ home) access. And Comcast has a very large market share of last mile<br>
access in the US.<br>
<br></blockquote><div>This is also clear.<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Netflix and Comcast ultimately (ca 23 Feb 2014) came to an agreement<br>
whereby Netflix paid Comcast for the extra ports.<br>
<br></blockquote><div>This is the part that is almost clear; so the scenario is that netflix had a 1gb port(bandwidth) with comcast through its ISP (Level 3) it then decided that it needed to serve its clients better by getting more bandwidth to meet up with the demand from customers. All these to me is a normal process that anyone that provides content service go through. The only place where i will perhaps find a fault is if those ports does not inturn improve the streaming experience of neflix users on the Internet (but of comcast last mile users alone). Even at that, i don't think it an issue because neflix agreed to that with comcast.<br>
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Some argued this is nothing but a paid peering arrangement. The extra
ports incurred costs for Comcast so they should be paid.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>+1 this is normal for any IX points; whereby as a member you buy for instance a 100mb port and then as your demand increase, you upgrade.<br>
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Others argued that Comcast charges their last-mile customers for
connections and, implicitly, bandwidth and those customers pay them so
they can get to services like Netflix.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This is valid, however if demand from users of netflix runs to say 2gbps concurrently and netflix only have a 1gb connection from its ISP then it will just make sense for netflix to upgrade its bandwidth to 2gb (especially the upload) <br>
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That is, Comcast is double-dipping, charging their customer for the
bandwidth and again charging Netflix for that bandwidth. Comcast can
do this, the argument continues, because of their dominance in the<br>
last-mile market. The bandwidth argument was just an excuse made
possible by market inefficiencies.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>For me i think its just a coincidence that netflix happen to be on comcast network. What if they were not on that network, will they not have upgraded their bandwidth once they notice they were hitting threshold? <br>
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This has broader implications for the entire internet, particularly in
terms of regulatory frameworks.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>IMO If this is an issue then everything about internet business is also flawed. <br><br></div><div class="im HOEnZb">Regards<br></div></div>PS: Open to hear where i may have missed it.<br>
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