@JaredBusch said:
@scottalanmiller said:
When you buy bandwidth people should expect you to use it. If they aren't happy with that they should not have sold it to you.
No different than how any home user abuses their peering by watching Netflix. The traffic is nearly all one direction. No one would ever call the obvious use case "abuse".
Something purchased is NOT peering. It is a paid service.
You're absolutely right. Netflix is purchasing the paid service to pump Xetabytes of data onto the internet to Cogent... it's Cogent's problem if there is a peering problem caused by Cogent's sale of such a large pipe to Netflix.
If Cogent needs to reevaluate their peering deal with other providers, so be it.. if that means that they suddenly have to incur more costs to connect to those other providers - I'm currently OK with that too. If that means that Cogent needs to pass those costs along to Netflix because they (Netflix) are the reason that Cogent has to pay the other peers - Fine... that's they way it SHOULD work.. not Netflix paying it directly to whatever extortion the other ISPs want to charge or else block the traffic.
Of course... if someone on Verizon's network put a sharing website that started making the peering more equal or unbalanced in a different way, then the agreement between Cogent and the other peers should be readjusted, etc.