If you are interested in OCA deployment at your ISP, please fill out our OCA request form. The OCA Deployment Guide provides deployment details. However, embedded OCAs are not always deployed, depending on your traffic levels, data center limitations, or other factors. If you have substantial Netflix traffic destined to your ISP customers, deploying embedded OCAs is usually the most beneficial option. ISP partners work with Netflix to configure BGP sessions with the OCAs to steer traffic, and the appliances require a small amount of data center rack space, power, and connectivity. Ongoing monitoring and issue resolution.Network architecture and technical turn-up expertise.Multiple physical deployments can be distributed or clustered on a geographic or network basis to maximize local offload. Each embedded OCA deployment will offload a substantial amount of Netflix content traffic from peering or transport circuits. Embedded OCAs have the same capabilities as the OCAs that we use in our 60+ global data centers, and they are provided to qualifying ISP partners at no charge. Open Connect Appliances can be embedded in your ISP network. There are two main components of the program, which are architected in partnership with ISPs to provide maximum benefit in each individual situation: embedded Open Connect Appliances and settlement-free interconnection (SFI). The Netflix Open Connect program provides opportunities for ISP partners to improve their customers' Netflix user experience by localizing Netflix traffic and minimizing the delivery of traffic that is served over a transit provider. Peering guidelines and contact informationįill out the appliance request form if you are interested in embedded appliance solutions.Requirements for deploying embedded Open Connect Appliances.Overview of Open Connect (PDF - English only).Open Connect Briefing Paper: A cooperative approach to content delivery (PDF - English only).If you are an ISP with a substantial amount of Netflix traffic, review this information to learn more about the program.įor more information about Open Connect, see: We partner with over a thousand ISPs to localize substantial amounts of traffic with Open Connect Appliance embedded deployments, and we have an open peering policy at our interconnection locations. We achieve this goal by partnering with Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to deliver our content more efficiently. The goal of the Netflix Open Connect program is to provide our millions of Netflix subscribers the highest-quality viewing experience possible.