Netflix’s Christmas Eve outage may speed up the creation of its own...
Netflix’s Christmas Eve outage may speed up the creation of its own content delivery network (CDN), Wells Fargo analyst Jennifer Fritzsche said Friday in an email to investors. “Netflix has already publicly stated this intention to build its own CDN,”…
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she said. “It has been doing this in phases at this point, but has not yet moved the core of the network.” The disruption, caused by an outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS), impacted “many, but not all” streaming devices in the Americas using Netflix services. Most Netflix subscribers had their service restored by late Monday evening (CD Dec 27 p10). A Netflix move to its own CDN would be good news for Cogent, Fritzsche said. While Netflix currently uses both Cogent and Level 3 Communications for Internet connectivity, it would likely make Cogent its primary provider after a CDN switch, she said.