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AVonGauss
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Re: One by one they go...

said by IPPlanMan:

Cogent is no longer a relevant player. The next "Netflix" will need to deal with an ISP like Comcast or Verizon directly and pay the "going rate". That's a potentially dangerous precedent.

Not really, they will start the same as NetFlix did most likely using shared resources such as AWS at first, then scaling to their own infrastructure but still using transit providers like Level 3 and Cogent for transport with the eventual progression to more direct relationships such as NetFlix has just done. This isn't unique to NetFlix, almost any Internet content provider of sizable volume has to go through this transition.
Skippy25
join:2000-09-13
Hazelwood, MO

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Name another internet content provider that pays any ISP for said ISP to deliver the data the ISP's customers have requested at a reasonable and timely fashion?
plat2on1
join:2002-08-21
Hopewell Junction, NY

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said by Skippy25:

Name another internet content provider that pays any ISP for said ISP to deliver the data the ISP's customers have requested at a reasonable and timely fashion?

Valve/Steam have peered with Comcast directly for years and I would bet my life that they are paying for that privilege.
silbaco
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Google has been buying paid peering for years. Yahoo and Microsoft have as well. Akamai has been well known for buying paid peering from Comcast and other ISPs, which a multitude of internet content providers use including Crunchyroll, a Netflix competitor.
AVonGauss
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Comcast is an ISP, Comcast also has a transit network. NetFlix could have paid more money to Cogent, Level 3 or any other transit providers to send data to Comcast customers but instead chose to peer directly with Comcast. This is likely something NetFlix has been planning to do for quite some time, since about the time they started building their own CDN...

What's so complicated to understand?