Solutions such as cloud, hosting, Partner Ports and others are designed specifically to provide a cost-effective means of delivering very large volumes of out-of-balance traffic. Perhaps you should send some messages to Netflix and point out some of Verizon's services that Netflix could PAY for Verizon offers a number of readily available solutions for interconnecting providers who send significantly more traffic than they receive from Verizon’s networks. So instead paying Verizon for that 10 Gigabit connection, they now only have to pay Verizon for a 5 Gigabit connection. Rather than Small ISP LLC pay for a 10 Gigabit connection to a Large ISP LIKE Verizon, they will end up saving money by using Netflix's Open Connect Appliance and potentially the Peering. Which ISPs benefit from Netflix Open Connect? Well certainly the smaller ones. You can also pay us for transit services or other data services. You can pay us to put YOURE appliance in OUR datacenters, central offices, for colocation etc. LOL? Huh? We aren't really in the BUSINESS of providing FREE services. Information on our Open Connect Peering and Open Connect Appliance. Here's what their Open Connect letter looks like to Verizon: Dear Verizon, we offer for free, these services. Now what about that agreement between ISP ABC, CDN XYZ with Verizon. They probably still pay for a another CDN XYZ. Netflix has Open Connect Peering and a Cache server (Open Connect Appliance). To put device diversity in context, we see almost around 1000 different devices streaming Netflix on Android every day. What license to they have for to stream a video? 480p, 720p?īTW there's 1000 Netflix Android variations alone. That’s why Netflix is doing a whole lot of encoding And many of them have different screen sizes, bitrate requirements and codec support. Xboxes, iPads, connected TVs: Netflix streams to a lot of different devices. It wouldn't have anything to do with the 900 fragmented Netflix devices out there, right? How many ways can they encode a single video? You have to pay you're ISP, Netflix and XBOX Live Gold. Some are HTML5, some are Silverlight, some have a native app. Some are only stereo instead of 5.1 audio. Oh whats that, no they don't perform the same. I sure bet they all perform exactly the same and perform at a super high performance. The NETFLIX device you use - how many are there? A quick overview here: Other than Squirrels, the other 9 items listed by Level 3. Yes the tiny animal that apparently likes to chew on fiber cables. Other traffic on you're equipment while attempting to stream Netflix You're equipment including computer, OS, software, router. OTHER FACTORS besides BLAME VERIZON include: How about how many that are on the FiOS 5 / 2 package. Do we know how many FiOS 3 / 1 subscribers Netflix includes in their stats? NO. How do we know that YOU aren't on the FiOS 3 Mb down / 1 Mb Up package? Then that would be YOUR problem. You haven't listed any of you're specs or you're FiOS package. This is not a Net Neutrality, FCC, or a throttling issue. I love how people tend to somehow avoid any blame on Netflix OR any other number of things that could be affecting performance. To borrow a quote from Paddy Chayefsky: "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!" My sense is that the only way to actually make something happen to fix this situation is to raise enough attention that Verizon management realizes it is in the company's best interest to stop stonewalling and instead actually do something. Or how about letters to the editors of major newspapers and/or wire services? How about emails to all the popular PC & Internet oriented magazines & blogs? How about some sort of petition sent to the FCC ( but addressed to whom or what department?) Or perhaps we flood the head of Verizon (who is that?) with emails or actual letters. So what can we, the customers and consumers, do to cause some positive action? So far, despite countless postings here about this issue, nothing has been done or appears to be planned to be done. Abd we are expected to continue paying for this? At this rate the delivery speed will drop to zero in a few more months. Neither of these are what we are paying for, and both are unacceptable.Ĭlearly shows Verizon's steadily decreasing performance delivering Netflix content. There are either numerous pauses waiting for buffering or reduced resolution due to Netflix increasing compression ratios to reduce network traffic. Obviously there are lots of folks (including me, located in the Los Angeles area) who are furious about Verizon's unacceptably poor delivery of Netflix content.
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