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Google Fiber: Working with content providers to minimize buffering (googlefiberblog.blogspot.com)
7 points by panarky on May 22, 2014 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


  We give companies like Netflix and Akamai free access to space
  and power in our facilities and they provide their own content
  servers.

  We don’t make money from peering or colocation; since people
  usually only stream one video at a time, video traffic doesn’t
  bog down or change the way we manage our network in any meaningful 
  way — so why not help enable it?

  But we also don’t charge because it’s really a win-win-win situation.
  It’s good for content providers because they can deliver really
  high-quality streaming video to their customers... It’s good
  for us because it saves us money (it’s easier to transport video
  traffic from a local server than it is to transport it thousands
  of miles). But most importantly, we do this because it gives
  Fiber users the fastest, most direct route to their content.




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