In my own/our users experience:
iTunes is available globally on Akamai, so if you stream US content it all comes off NZ Akamai servers nice and quick
Netflix check IP's both when you login and when you stream, so you can't just do DNS hacks to point Netflix via some US DNS servers to get logged in. This is why we've had to deploy tunnels to stream from the US. The hardware we've installed in the US
has been positioned where we were able to peer with Amazon as Netflix comes off a mixture Amazon AWS and Akamai.
On 10/05/2012, at 4:30 PM, Jonathan Brewer wrote:
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Scott Pettit
<SPettit@end2end.co.nz> wrote:
Have seen some talk on Geekzone with people speculating by saying there's no way iTunes/Netflix streaming from the US would work for NZ users. That's not correct, one of our users are streaming either 720p or 1080p and it works perfectly.
Interestingly enough, it appears to your humble observer that the streaming will come from wherever the CDN wants to originate it, as long as the request for content appears to have originated from the US.
For example, it has been observed that when streaming TV shows and Movies from the US iTunes store, more often than not the data is coming from Sydney.
It was also observed that during the geo-restricted broadcasts of the NCAA Mens Basketball tournament final via CBS Sports, the streaming seamlessly transitioned between NZ based Akamai servers, and adjusted encoding rate depending on which particular node
one was attached to at the time. (Observation - streaming from the node within TNZ was about 1.2mbps, and from the CallPlus node was around 4mbps.)
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