Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that

[Seth Mattinen <sethm () rollernet us>]

On 2/12/20 8:13 AM, Brandon Martin wrote:
> It would be really nice if the major CDNs had virtual machines small 
> network operators with very expensive regional transport costs could 
> spin up.  Hit rate would be very low, of course, but the ability to grab 
> some of these mass-market huge updates and serve them on the other end 
> of the regional transport at essentially no extra cost would be great. 
> I'm sure legal arrangements make that difficult, though.


My experience is that they want to see lots of traffic growth to stay 
interested. As companies get bigger the minimum bar to play keeps going 
up, and anyone below that bar is stuck relying on transit. Fall below 
the bar or don't show enough growth fast enough and they pull the 
resources away.