If that weren't for a comedic curtain call, a vast majority of the heavy bandwidth streaming is done IN NETWORK via CDN so there are ZERO transit charges. In addition with peering agreements these costs may even be lower.
They were really getting killed w/ P2P because they were really having to pay some $$$, but now with P2P being replaced by In net CDN, they are loving life, and on top of that they can charge Netflix and the like for in network access in their datacenters. A true double dip.
Of course the transit exchange are only going to be at major hubs at the lowest cost.
If that weren't for a comedic curtain call, a vast majority of the heavy bandwidth streaming is done IN NETWORK via CDN so there are ZERO transit charges. In addition with peering agreements these costs may even be lower.
Of course the transit exchange are only going to be at major hubs at the lowest cost.
Transit costs are extremely low for these companies anyway and not much of a factor for the amount they're purchasing. The bigger costs come from long haul connections which they share with all of their traffic whether it is to access transit links or peering links. Peering isn't "free" when you have to pay for the long haul links that make up their backbone.
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