Comment by eddythompson80
18 hours ago
That’s a really over simplification of the issue. Plenty of Netflix edge CDNs are (and always were) ISP hosted. It’s a win-win for both and a complete no-brainer. The ISP v. Netflix argument was always about contract and margin negotiations. Flat rate, usage percentages, minimums, maximums, special plans, cuts, etc. who has the upper hand in the negotiation so to speak. Funnily enough the repeal of net neutrality gave those smaller ISPs much better position in the negotiation with big tech, not necessarily Comcast. The internet discord focused on Comcast and Verizon because fuck those guys. Who is gonna argue in favor of Comcast or Verizon? But the real winners were thousands of smaller regional ISPs.
The internet discourse focused on the big ISPs which refused to deploy CDN nodes and then said they needed to double-charge for peering capacity. Most smaller ISPs deployed those Open Connect nodes either becsuse they weren’t as greedy or felt that their customers had alternatives.