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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:No Way by jumpingfred · · Score: 0, Redundant

    TCP does not have anything at all to do with the Shannon Limit. The Shannon limit lets you know how fast it is possible to send the bits with a given error rate over a finite bandwidth channel in the presence of noise. It does not have anything to say about higher level protocols.