On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 09:47:44AM +1300, Dean Pemberton wrote:
Interesting article from CloudFlare...
http://blog.cloudflare.com/the-relative-cost-of-bandwidth-around-the-world/
While NZ isn't mentioned I'm picking we get lumped in with Australia for which they have this to say...
"Australia
Australia is the most expensive region in which we operate, but for an interesting reason. We peer with virtually every ISP in the region except one: Telstra. Telstra, which controls approximately 50% of the market, and was traditionally the monopoly telecom provider, charges some of the highest transit pricing in the world ??? 20x the benchmark ($200/Mbps). Given that we are able to peer approximately half of our traffic, the effective bandwidth benchmark price is $100/Mbps.
I imagine this ties in with Telstaclear Cloudflare traffic being directed towards Singapore. With that kind of extortion I suppose it is the most rational action. I do wonder with all these new fast UFB plans, and how things like Freeview won't support 4k video any time soon, and tablets and phones passing 1080p recently with computers having a few power users also on such, if there is going to be more and more seggregation between expensive and cheap users in deciding what streams to allow users to view etc. Netflix has already gone through similar things whilst trying to get ISP's to host their own caches. Ben