Verizon is working on directly connecting Netflix content...
Verizon is working on directly connecting Netflix content servers to Verizon’s network “so that we both can keep the interests of our mutual customers paramount,” a Verizon executive said Monday in a blog post (http://vz.to/1o1qoXl). Verizon and Netflix found a…
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way to avoid congestion problems created by Level 3, said David Young, Verizon vice president-regulatory affairs, in the post. Rather than buy the capacity they need, Level 3 “insists that Verizon should add capacity to the existing peering link for additional downstream traffic even though the traffic is already wildly out of balance,” he said in response to Level 3’s blog post criticizing Verizon on how it handles interconnection (CD July 21 p11). Verizon and Netflix were at odds over which company is responsible for congested networks (CD June 18 p7).