Comments on: Netflix switching from Akamai to Level 3 CDN services

By: Digital Society » Blog Archive » Level 3 outbid Akamai on Netflix by reselling stolen bandwidth

Tue, 30 Nov 2010 14:24:17 +0000

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By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 21:42:55 +0000

There is no news to report here, as Jack points out.

By: SiliconANGLE — Blog — Net Neutrality – It’s just the old question of “Who Pays”

Mon, 15 Nov 2010 21:13:33 +0000

[...] server farms, or the use of premier CDN providers like Akamai or Level 3. As George Ou recently noted, there is no such thing as “server neutrality” or “storage neutrality”. Thus, there has [...]

By: Digital Society » Blog Archive » Net Neutrality – It’s just the old question of “Who Pays”

Mon, 15 Nov 2010 19:37:14 +0000

By: Jack Moves

Jack Moves — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 01:37:57 +0000

Or not. The Level 3 CDN is pretty light on capacity compared to, say, LLNW or AKAM. $15M in capex may sound like big cash, but it works out to a thousand or two servers, or 2% of AKAM’s total (published) footprint.

By: George Ou

George Ou — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 00:05:05 +0000

@Jack Moves

If they are still going to keep other vendors, that means they’ll require even more bandwidth than what Level 3 is adding.

By: Jack Moves

Jack Moves — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:03:02 +0000

Where are you getting your information that Netflix is “switching from” Akamai?

Even the incorrect Dan Rayburn later clarified that they’re maintaining a multi-vendor strategy.

Netflix also buys from Limelight, FWIW.

By: Bret Swanson – Maximum Entropy » Blog Archive » NetFlix Boom Leads to Switch

Fri, 12 Nov 2010 14:17:58 +0000

[...] is moving its content delivery platform from Akamai back to Level 3. Level 3 is adding 2.9 terabits per second of new capacity specifically to support NetFlix’s [...]