[e2e] performance of BIC-TCP, High-Speed-TCP, H-TCP etc

[Paul Francis]

Seriously though...
 
There is another way to view the question of whether fasttcp is out of the
running or not.  Which is, if FastTCP is commercialized (and by the way the
Fastsoft deployment model is a simple and popular one), then it seems that
FastTCP is exactly the protocol that you want to be benchmarking against
alternatives.  
 
PF

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Subject: RE: [e2e] performance of BIC-TCP, High-Speed-TCP, H-TCP etc



Paul Francis said on Fri 2006-09-22 23:23:
> Sure, but nevertheless it is interesting to compare them.  I mean, what if
we
> find out that fasttcp is just or nearly just as good as XCP.  This tells us
> not to even bother looking at XCP cause of the deployment cost.

While the Caltech IPR on Fast TCP tells us not to look at Fast TCP because of
the deployment cost.

http://www.fastsoft.com/fasttcp.html

Note that the correct name of the protocol is FastTCP(TM) -- and that in
FastSoft's preferred deployment model, you'd have to deploy their PEPs in
front of every LAN... not so different from XCP.

FastTCP has been out of the running for deployment ever since it was first
announced -- with the Caltech IPR shackles mentioned in the slideset.

L. 

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