Documente Academic
Documente Profesional
Documente Cultură
PTT Forum December 2012 Flavio Amaral (South America Network Strategy)
1
Overview
Introduction to Netflix
Netflix in Brazil
Peering and Plans for 2013
Open Connect, the Netflix Content Delivery Network
Embedded ISP Caches (Open Connect Appliances)
Introduction to Netflix
Internet television
Subscription service (R$14,99/ms)
A catalog of movie and television shows
Personalized recommendations
Support for wide variety of platforms, including computer
based players, game consoles, mobile, set top boxes
and smart televisions
HTTP adaptive bitrate video delivery with custom
intelligent client software
3
Netflix in Brazil
Service Launched in September 2011
Streaming millions of hours of entertainment each week
Also available across the rest of the Americas and parts
of Europe
Bitrate limits on some ISPs to avoid low usage based
billing caps
Peering
Present at PTT-BR IX in Sao Paulo
First PoP activated in August 2012
Second PoP being activated this month.
3500
3000
2500
2000
1500
1000
500
OCA Operation
Used exclusively for Netflix content
Completely integrated with the Netflix content delivery system
Greater effectiveness than transparent or proxy caches (90% with
Netflix OCA, versus 20-50% with other caches)
OCA Hardware
Space optimized: 4U highdensity storage
Power optimized for low power/
cooling requirements (500W)
Redundant 10GE optical
network interfaces
Redundant power supplies (AC
or DC)
Software:
FreBSD 9.0
NGINX HTTP server
BIRD BGP
OCA Provisioning
Preconfigured: ISP unpacks and racks unit, plugs in
power and network
OCA are shipped with pre-loaded content, immediately
deliver network offload
The appliance you receive is the same field- proven
appliance Netflix uses in its own data centers and
peering locations.
Netflix OCA
Network Positioning
OCAs are installed close to aggregations of end users
Netflix works with ISPs to determine proper location
and user-to-OCA mapping
ISP Controls Traffic Flow
End-user netblocks are associated with OCA via BGP advertisement
OCAs only serve content to netblocks provided by ISP
ISPs choose peak throughput each OCA is allowed to generate
Scaling/Redundancy
Typical configuration includes N+1 redundancy
Netflix works with ISP capacity planning to ensure
desired upstream network savings are achieved
Peering and Neighbor failover
IX peering recommended for fill, overflow and failover
Open Connect System designed as carrier class ISPs
do not need to keep significant headroom on transit links
to handle OCA failure.
Multiple OCAs can store some similar (popular) and
some different content to increase offload %
OCA DRM
Worry-free for all types of networks
The content stored is encrypted with industry-standard
Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology
Obtaining keys to unlock the DRM content requires realtime interaction with our control servers
Only authorized subscription accounts can authenticate
to the control servers to obtain license keys to play
content
Our DRM systems have been reviewed and approved by
our content licensors
19
20
Questions?
Contact:
famaral@netflix.com
Additional information, including
peering and caching information:
http://openconnect.netflix.com/