ARPANET Co-Founder Calls for Flow Management

An anonymous reader writes "Lawrence Roberts, co-founder of ARPANET and inventor of packet switching, today published an article in which he claims to solve the congestion control problem on the Internet. Roberts says, contrary to popular belief, the problem with congestion is the networks, not Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). Rather than overhaul TCP, he says, we need to deploy flow management, and selectively discard no more than one packet per TCP cycle. Flow management is the only alternative to peering into everyone's network, he says, and it's the only way to fairly distribute Internet capacity."

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inventor of packet switching

[Anonymous Coward]

Larry Roberts was co-founder of the ARPAnet, but he did NOT invent packet switching. That invention goes to Donald Davies of the National Physical Laboratory in the UK. His work was well-credited by the ARPAnet designers.

Re:And where can I buy this flow management?

[langelgjm]

I was about to chastise you for being overly cynical, but then I visited the website of the author:

Anagran eliminates congestion in the worldâ(TM)s busiest networks with Fast Flow Technologyâ, developed from the ground-up to specifically eliminate and resolve congestion created by the proliferation of todayâ(TM)s broadband applications such as video, P2P, voice, gaming, YouTube etc. â" anywhere in the network.