FastTCP Commercialized Into An FTP Appliance

prostoalex writes "FastTCP technology, developed by researchers at CalTech, is being commercialized. A company called FastSoft has introduced a hardware appliance that delivers 15x-20x faster FTP transmissions than those delivered via regular TCP. Says eWeek: 'The algorithm implemented in the Aria appliance senses congestion by continuously measuring the round-trip time for the TCP acknowledgment and then monitoring how that measurement changes from moment to moment.'"

Comments

FastTCP == 4 LoCs per hour

[maharg]

Yes, you read that right - 4 Libraries of Congress per hour !!!!

See http://www.fastsoft.com/research.html

Re:No Way

[Stellian]

Shannon-shmannon. How dare you !
If you've read TFA you'll know this revolutionary technology not only increases the speed by a factor of 15 to 20 times, but also insures "overall client happiness". Amazing !

Why Not UDP

[maz2331]

Maybe they should just use good old UDP instead and implement a tweak to the FTP protocol to handle retransmit and error checking. The 'Net doesn't drop very many packets anymore, and UDP can work just fine.

Re:So where's the SlowTCP?

[g0dsp33d]

I believe the application is called Internet Explorer iirc.

Re:FastTCP is just a fancy name for TCP Vegas?

[jollyreaper]

FastTCP sounds like a fancy name for TCP Vegas (which has been around for quite some time). Window scaling and Vegas should buy you pretty much everything that FastTCP seems to be offering... Sounds like marketspeak to me. You wouldn't want to use TCP Vegas, the packets are unroutable. What happens in TCP Vegas stays in TCP Vegas.

XMODEM

[BinBoy]

This could be the XMODEM killer.

Re:hmm

[Citizen of Earth]

Al Gore didn't invent the Transmission Control, he invented the Internet.

Al Gore never claimed to invent the Internet. That's just a Republican spin on relatively accurate statements that Gore Made. What Al Gore invented is Algorithms. That's why they are called that!