# Netflix Open Connect Appliance Software

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**Created:** [June 5, 2012, 7:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/netflix-open-connect-appliance-software/220311 "2012-06-05T19:57:43Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 5, 2012, 7:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/netflix-open-connect-appliance-software/220311/1 "2012-06-05T19:57:43Z")

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This is a cross posting from freebsd-stable. I thought it worth giving  
Igor et al a shout out:

From [Netflix](https://signup.netflix.com/openconnect/software) :

Open Source Software

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 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 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 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://nginx.com), who provide superb  
development support for our project.

Questions

Contact the Open Connect team at removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid.

If you are interested in joining the Content Delivery or another team at  
Netflix, apply at [Netflix Jobs](http://www.netflix.com/jobs)

–  
Jim O.