Because it takes up that whopping 30% of home Internet bandwidth, Netflix is disrupting traditional “peering” structures whereby two or more networks, which are required to be connected at a hardware level, exchange traffic for free. The networks that Netflix connects to are sending significantly more traffic to their peering partners than they’re receiving in return. The extra traffic forces many of these last-mile providers to either spend money to upgrade their infrastructure, or their users will suffer from a degraded viewing experience.
由于掌握了高达30%的家用互联网带宽,奈飞打破了传统的对等直联结构,也就是两个或多个网络在硬件层面连接在一起,免费交换数据。奈飞连接的网络向对等网络发送的数据远远超过了从对方那里接收的数据。这些多出来的数据迫使许多这样的“最后一哩”服务供应商升级自己的基础设施,否则,用户的收视体验就会打折。
Earlier this year, Comcast CMCSA -0.69% and Netflix signed a paid peering agreement designed to improve Netflix’s performance, but that doesn’t change the fact that we are consistently at the limits of bandwidth when it comes to streaming high-quality video. Sure enough, a few months later, images of Netflix error messages blaming Verizon for slow bandwidth started going viral online.
今年早些时候,康卡斯特(Comcast)和奈飞签署了一份付费直联协议,旨在改善奈飞的节目播出效果,但这个举措并不能改变这样一个事实。那就是,播放高质量视频时我们对带宽的使用总是处于极限状态。可以肯定,几个月后奈飞指责威瑞森(Verizon)影响网速的报错信息截图就会像病毒一样在网上传播开来。
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