[room500]

I don’t think Netflix has a fast lane anywhere.

Netflix does offer to give servers to ISPs to put in their datacenters. So if your ISP is seeing congestion on the IX links, it is entirely possible that Netflix still works fine (because the traffic doesn’t leave the ISP and is therefore not hitting the congestion). But that is not a “fast lane”

[xiphias2]

At that point Netflix should just provide its own VPN / internet access for paying users

[riku_iki]

Netflix puts servers in datacenters to cache content, so you access it much faster. Not sure what problem Netflix VPN will solve.

[drewg123]

You're missing the point. Netflix is fast in these situations because your client can access the server in the ISP's data center and video traffic remains local to the ISP and doesn't traverse the congested link to the IX.

Other companies embed servers with ISPs as well.