Netflix: What Happens When You Press Play?
Many of the things Netflix does here google does too and has been doing for a long time like GGC (Google Global Cache) for free at ISP NOC or datacenters - their GGC nodes are many orders of magnitude time is distribution.<p>90% of the Google traffic through these devices are youtube videos.<p>They mention it in the article like Netflix pioneered this idea with open-connect. If anything it&#x27;s harder to get OC devices from Netflix then it is from Google.<p>Even Akamai does have a similar program where they let you put their CDN on ISP NOC.