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Originally Posted by Kushan
So how does that work, exactly? Presumably someone pays XO to act as a CDN, but is it Google or Virgin (Or someone else in the chain)?
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Good question.
Generally CDN's pay the ISP for eyeballs. 80% of data is video these days and most goes downstream to the user. CDN's get paid by the likes of YouTube and Netflix, though Netflix has its own CDN OpenConnect now which they try to route most of their traffic through.
I haven't seen XO used as a CDN for myself in Scotland, though some users might be CDN'd differently and even on a per-video basis. Which makes it complex to say exactly what's happening without some diagnostic info.
Settlement-free peering seems to be more common in europe, with Internet eXchanges.
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It's interesting to note that most of the money flows downstream towards the user until it gets to the ISP's. Really we should be paid for using the internet as it's mostly advertising based, which is how the companies at the top of the chain make their money ; see google search as a classic example.
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Time Warner Cable: No, we don’t throttle YouTube — it’s all about peering:
http://gigaom.com/2013/06/17/time-wa...about-peering/