What is Facebook FNA?

Hello Experts,

What is Facebook FNA?
Does anyone have experience with it?

Hello.

Facebook Network Appliance (as known as FNA) is a content caching program.

It is a way ISPs have to to efficiently deliver static Facebook content from within their existing networks.

By doing it, the ISP can offload significant amount of Facebook content from its backbone network and vastly improve the Facebook user experience.

In practice, it means Switchs and Servers installed in ISP data centers.

What about other Applications?
Is it only useful for Facebook users?
How about Instagram/WhatsApp users (also from Facebook). Are they included in Cache?

Also: other Applications, like Google?
Does every Company has its Cache?

anything under facebook will be unde fna also
about the google they have like GGC same idea of fna

@MRIQ do you know the requirements from FB ? and how to apply to the program, can’t find any link in google , just FB pairing :frowning:

what needs to be done, how can we apply

did anyone found something on it ?

Requirements

  1. Must have your own ASN and IP Prefix(es)
    You can get this from your RIR : https://www.nro.net/about/rirs/
  2. Must have a peeringdb page that’s up to date : https://www.peeringdb.com/

Once the content provider (Google / Meta etc) sees enough traffic from your Prefixes / IPs, they usually reach out or you can go request an appliance

Here are a few links to such pages
Google - https://peering.google.com/
Meta - https://meta.com/peering requires you to have a peeringdb account to even log in
Netflix - https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/deployment-guide/appliance-request/