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FastTCP Commercialized Into An FTP Appliance

Posted by Zonk on from the speedy-delivery dept.

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.'"

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  1. Re:Nonsense by bockelboy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Think again. I suspect that you only have tried that on a low-speed link (DSL, Cable, FIOS, etc). Try thinking about 2 orders of magnitude faster.

    I transfer about 20 TB / day at work, and that wouldn't be possible with a "typical FTP connection".

    If you read the papers coming out of Caltech, you'd see they were optimizing for 10 Gbps lines, not residential lines. 15-20x faster is a very fair estimate; look at Caltech's presentations at SC05 or SC07.