There are several companies doing this business specifically: users buy seek boxes from them, and they sell the bandwidth to us video streaming companies. They are just like CDN providers, but instead of buying bandwidth and server from the data center, they “buy” it from home users. I don’t think ISPs would like this, because it affects the business in their data center side.
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That's fascinating. How popular are seed boxes? And does the consumer get them from their internet provider directly?
There are several companies doing this business specifically: users buy seek boxes from them, and they sell the bandwidth to us video streaming companies. They are just like CDN providers, but instead of buying bandwidth and server from the data center, they “buy” it from home users. I don’t think ISPs would like this, because it affects the business in their data center side.
IIRC the total usable bandwidth is about 10Tbps