According to the Wall Street Journal, Netflix and Comcast have signed a multiyear paid contract allowing the video streaming service a more direct route to Comcasts network. The first indications of the new agreement came when App.net founder Bryan Berg noticed more direct traceroutes from the service, but Journal sources indicate the change is the result of a formal agreement between the two companies, and money has indeed changed hands. In Netflixs case, much of the data has been delivered over a middleman, Cogent, which has had to deliver more and more data through its limited connections to Comcasts network as the demand for Netflix grows.
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