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Netflix Open Connect¶
Open Connect is Netflix's content-delivery network — the global network of caching appliances Netflix deploys at ISPs and Internet Exchange Points to serve member streaming traffic close to viewers. Its canonical public documentation is openconnect.netflix.com.
Within the sysdesign-wiki, Open Connect's first documented role (as of 2025-04-01) is a production-infrastructure backbone, not a streaming CDN: it carries high-bandwidth media traffic between regional ingest centres and AWS as part of Netflix's hybrid-cloud media-ingest architecture behind the Media Production Suite.
Per Netflix TechBlog 2025-04-01: "Netflix has invested in a hybrid infrastructure … Local storage and compute services are connected through the Netflix Open Connect network (Netflix Content Delivery Network) to the infrastructure of Amazon Web Services (AWS). The system facilitates large volumes of camera and sound media and is built for speed."
Stub note¶
This wiki page is currently a stub — Open Connect's streaming- side architecture (appliance design, BGP anycast peering, fill strategy, title popularity → cache admission) has not yet been ingested. Expand this page when one of Netflix's streaming-side Open Connect posts is distilled (Globally Distributed Content Delivery, the OCA hardware posts, etc.).
Seen in¶
- sources/2025-04-01-netflix-globalizing-productions-with-netflixs-media-production-suite — Open Connect in its production-backbone role carrying media between ingest centres and AWS for Content Hub + MPS. First non-streaming role for Open Connect on the wiki.
- sources/2026-04-02-netflix-smarter-live-streaming-vbr-at-scale — Open Connect as the fleet delivery substrate for Netflix Live post-2026-01-26 CBR → capped VBR cutover. VBR's ≈10% lower peak-minute traffic (the Open Connect capacity-planning metric) is a direct CDN-provisioning win; ≈15% lower average bytes reduces fill + serve burden on OC appliances + peering ISPs. The nominal- bitrate admission control fix keeps per-server session- admission safety consistent across the CBR→VBR transition.