Hi Josh!
Do you buy any transit at all or rely solely on peering?
Who do you peer with, and how easy has it been to find peers, due to the huge asymmetry in traffic?
Do you have any CDN caches deployed (GGC, Netflix, etc.)?
Do you buy any transit at all or rely solely on peering?
Who do you peer with, and how easy has it been to find peers, due to the huge asymmetry in traffic?
Do you have any CDN caches deployed (GGC, Netflix, etc.)?
But, most of the networks that provide the majority of the traffic have pretty open peering policies, and the LA area has a lot of places to peer, and peering places are also usually a reasonable place to get transit so... If you're seeing at least a few gbps from FAANG, they'll peer with you, if you're where they are, and all of them have PoPs in LA, because everyone is there (this is a little circular, LA was highly connected in the PTSN because of population size, and that lead to early internet exchanges and undersea cabling, which leads to more people wanting to be there and so on)
I'd imagine if they have the traffic to justify it, and the space to house it, they'd get the CDN caches. It's a pretty good win, peering is settlement free, but access to the peering point isn't free; keeping traffic from using your ingress capacity is nice (depending on your network architecture anyway)
However that isn't your only option. You can just peer with Netflix, they have an open peering policy.