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BIC-TCP 6,000 Times Quicker Than DSL

Posted by timothy on from the free-dinner-at-red-lobster dept.

An anonymous reader writes "North Carolina researchers have developed an Internet protocol, subsequently tested and affirmed by Stanford, that hums along at speeds roughly 6,000 times that of DSL. The system, called BIC-TCP, beat out competing protocols from Caltech, University College London and others. The results were announced at IEEE's annual communications confab in Hong Kong." Update: 03/16 04:46 GMT by T : ScienceBlog suggests this alternate link while their site is down.

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  1. New Protocol???!!!! by ptelligence · · Score: 5, Funny

    Use it to host your blog server..immediately? You've been slashdotted.

  2. Re:Protocol faster than DSL? by dreamchaser · · Score: 5, Funny

    That was my first thought. Isn't that like saying that they've invented gasoline that goes faster than a car?

  3. Re:Protocol faster than DSL? by Cynikal · · Score: 5, Funny

    thats what i was gonna say... last i heard DSL was physical connection method..

    in other news AMD has developed a new architecture 80 billion times faster than grapefruit

  4. Yeah but... by gilmet · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does it beat out AOL 9.0 Topspeed technology?

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  6. Re:Protocol faster than DSL? by Rorschach1 · · Score: 5, Funny
    But I don't know what the heck DSL is supposed to have to do with it; the physical *medium* consumer DSL uses (copper POTS lines) sure as hell isn't going to support a 9Gbps connection...


    Sure it will... provided you're not more than three feet from the central office.

  7. Re:Time to Implimentation? by ackthpt · · Score: 5, Funny
    It would be interesting to know how far out an implimentation of such a protocol on a large scale is.

    As we all know, pr0n drives the technology bubble. Indicate that the average luser could watch internet pr0n real time over a 56K modem and it's just a matter of time.

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  8. Re:Protocol faster than DSL? by iminplaya · · Score: 5, Funny

    I want some of those tires for my Pinto! They'll make it that much faster!

    Yeah, maybe you'll be able to out run the fire in your gas tank. :-)

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  9. Re:Propagation delays by SETIGuy · · Score: 5, Funny
    My ping to Ohio from Minneapolis was 40 MS with Comcast, and now it is 120 MS with RoadRunner.


    40 Megasiemens? Don't you also need to know the capacitance and inductance of the connection in order to figure out the ping time from that?

    % units

    You have: 40 MS
    You want: years
    conformability error
    40000000 A^2 s^3 / kg m^2
    31556926 s
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