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> Now that my ISP bundles Netflix subscription into their internet plans, access to netflix and fast.com now practically saturate the fiber link

They may have an ISP-local netflix cache, from Netflix themselves not some home-grown hack, so they can achieve that with some reliability without it costing as much as it otherwise would for bandwidth peering.




Netflix distributes "red boxes" to ISPs which are exactly that: edge content caches.

(PDF): https://openconnect.netflix.com/Open-Connect-Briefing-Paper....




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