> Its to reduce their maximum bandwidth capacity required.
They should be looking to partner with someone who has bandwidth problems in the other direction. By combining a backup service's upload bandwidth and a streaming video service's download bandwidth into one AS, you can get a more balanced stream, and qualify for free peering.
Yeah, agreed. The problem is, you're limited to partners in the same DC as you (unless you're going to bite the bullet and start using fiber loops between datacenters to accomplish this). Backblaze (for example only) is only in one DC in Northern California if I recall, which limits them to whomever is in that datacenter.
A great model would be to parter with CDNs; they pour content out to eyeball networks, but you could run a distributed network of your storage system across all of their POPs.
They should be looking to partner with someone who has bandwidth problems in the other direction. By combining a backup service's upload bandwidth and a streaming video service's download bandwidth into one AS, you can get a more balanced stream, and qualify for free peering.