Netflix's New Peering Appliance Uses FreeBSD

[Bruce Cran]

[cc freebsd-advocacy]

On 05/06/2012 16:56, Benjamin Francom wrote:
> I just saw this, and thought I'd share:
>
> Open Connect Appliance Software
>
> Netflix delivers streaming content using a combination of intelligent
> clients, a central control system, and a network of Open Connect appliances.
>
> When designing the Open Connect Appliance Software, we focused on these
> fundamental design goals:
>
>     - Use of Open Source software
>     - Ability to efficiently read from disk and write to network sockets
>     - High-performance HTTP delivery
>     - Ability to gather routing information via BGP
>
> Operating System
>
> For the operating system, we use FreeBSD<http://www.freebsd.org/>  version
> 9.0. This was selected for its balance of stability and features, a strong
> development community and staff expertise. We will contribute changes we
> make as part of our project to the community through the FreeBSD committers
> on our team.
> Web server
>
> We use the nginx<http://www.nginx.org/>  web server for its proven
> scalability and performance. Netflix audio and video is served via HTTP.
> Routing intelligence proxy
>
> We use the BIRD Internet routing daemon<http://bird.network.cz/>  to enable
> the transfer of network topology from ISP networks to the Netflix control
> system that directs clients to sources of content.
> Acknowledgements
>
> We would would like to express our thanks to the FreeBSD community, the
> nginx community, and Ondrej and the BIRD team for providing excellent open
> source software. We also work directly with Igor, Maxim, Andrew, Sergey,
> Ruslan and the rest of the team at nginx.com<http://www.nginx.com/>, who
> provide superb development support for our project."
>