I work in a totally different environment -- a very large enterprise IT environment with 200k+ users and probably 2,000 physical locations.
When we do business with cloud providers or other third parties, we usually start with internet based access. When the relationship gets bigger or needs to serve a large portion of our base, we typically either peer with that provider (in the case of big cloud providers like Amazon, Microsoft, etc) or establish dedicated connectivity between our networks.
I think Comcast, Verizon, TWC, etc has a point here -- as a relationship grows with another party, you should have a more robust connection. Netflix hasn't wanted to do that -- it prefers to use a shitty ISP (Cogent) for cheap, and augment it by co-locating content on end-user ISP networks for free. Services like Netflix and Youtube stretch the net-neutrality argument, because they aren't good citizens.
That said, the end-user ISPs cannot be allowed to discriminate, which their monopoly power will almost certainly enable them to do.
When we do business with cloud providers or other third parties, we usually start with internet based access. When the relationship gets bigger or needs to serve a large portion of our base, we typically either peer with that provider (in the case of big cloud providers like Amazon, Microsoft, etc) or establish dedicated connectivity between our networks.
I think Comcast, Verizon, TWC, etc has a point here -- as a relationship grows with another party, you should have a more robust connection. Netflix hasn't wanted to do that -- it prefers to use a shitty ISP (Cogent) for cheap, and augment it by co-locating content on end-user ISP networks for free. Services like Netflix and Youtube stretch the net-neutrality argument, because they aren't good citizens.
That said, the end-user ISPs cannot be allowed to discriminate, which their monopoly power will almost certainly enable them to do.