Google Fiber: We Don’t Charge for Peering, Don’t Have Fast Lanes
If you decided to create a new national network tomorrow you would not build multiple broadcast facilities, instead at the major ISP networks you would put your content caching gear right into their major metro hubs after building your one broadcast and satellite location. It’s probably a lot cheaper than collecting local affiliates.
Google used its Google Fiber internet access business Wednesday to chime in on the continuing debate around peering and internet fast lanes, and guess what: the company doesn’t use either. Fiber, which is slowly expanding its footprint, doesn’t have “any deals to prioritize (some content companies’) video ‘packets’ over others or otherwise discriminate among Internet traffic,” according to a blog post published Wednesday afternoon.
Google also said it doesn’t charge for peering, and instead invites content providers and content delivery networks to colocate within their facilities to get their content closer to the end user. Google identified Akamai and Netflix as two companies that make use of colocation; Netflix has for some time tried to partner with ISPs and place its own OpenConnect caching appliances within the ISPs’ networks.
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