LOS GATOS, Calif.—In a new blog post, Netflix is celebrating Open Connect, an initiative to improve streaming quality that it launched in 2012. As streaming was beginning to place hefty demands on ...

In early 2012, Netflix began enabling Internet service providers (ISPs) to receive, at no cost to them, Netflix video directly at the interconnection point of the ISP's choice. By connecting directly ...

Netflix insiders laugh off the Trojan horse concerns, arguing that Open Connect is only about making the transmission of Netflix smoother and delivering better quality to subscribers.

At the moment about 5% of Netflix is on Open Connect. Over the next few years this percentage will increase, but at a very gradual rate.

Netflix reports its content makes up more than 30 percent of peak web traffic on U.S. ISP servers. Currently, 5 percent of Netflix videos are served by Open Connect.

Cablevision uses Netflix’s Open Connect platform, which helps ISPs minimize the massive strain Netflix puts on their overall network, thus speeding up the entire connection for everyone.

Netflix is celebrating ten years of its Open Connect programme, which sees the streaming service partner with ISPs to deliver its content more efficiently. To date Netflix has 18,000 servers in 6,000 ...

Netflix now seems to be handling its own traffic exchange agreements with broadband providers – at least for Open Connect. “If the [broadband provider] is present in any of the same peering locations ...

Netflix ‘s new show “The Get Down” may be all about New York in the 1970s, but getting it ready to stream for all of its 83 million subscribers around the world involved a whole lot of 21st ...

Netflix hopes to do the same, announcing its own CDN dubbed Open Connect Network, which is already serving about 5% of the service's material.