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You are probably overestimating Netflix traffic by a lot.

IX.br peak traffic is 20Tb/s, DE-CIX peak traffic is 14Tb/s, AMS-IX is around 11Tb/s.

The 800Gpbs machine is probably enough for a country.

Netflix traffic stats at PIT Chile, this is their only peering connection in Chile: https://www.pitchile.cl/wp/graficos-con-indicadores/streamin...



This assumption misses out on all the private interconnect links and deployed OpenConnect appliances within ISP networks - a majority of Netflix's traffic today. IXes are only a small portion of overall internet traffic.


I notice people streaming in very low resolution without realising it, and sometimes intervene when the pain gets too great.

I’d be vey surprised if the average bitrate was anywhere near the appropriation.

However that wasn’t the point of the calculation, it was looking for a maximum.


Agree and 20 mbps is a reasonable rate for modern codecs for resolutions up to 4k for the 99% of viewers


Netflix 4K is pretty low bitrate. I haven’t checked recently but was not seeing anything approaching 20mbps last time I looked. That said, it looked pretty good.


You still need the premium package for this. It maxes at 1080p with no HDR on the standard package.




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