I'm Steven Low from FastSoft. We are really excited by all the discussions, and would like to share a few things.
As several people have already pointed out that, like most TCP variants, FastTCP is end-to-end and does not require router support, nor does it require any hardware or software installation at the receiving computer. It accelerates all TCP-based applications. It eliminates inefficiencies of current TCP implementations in the presence of packet loss and long latency. It thus provides the most benefit in transferring large files over long-fat or lossy paths. For large file transfers, slow-start is less important than TCP's steady state behavior (congestion avoidance algorithm) and this is what we have optimized.
I'll be happy to answer any questions. Feel free to give me a call at 626 357-7012, or email me at info@fastsoft.com
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I'm Steven Low from FastSoft. We are really excited by all the discussions,
and would like to share a few things.
As several people have already pointed out that, like most TCP
variants, FastTCP is end-to-end and does not require router support,
nor does it require any hardware or software installation at the receiving
computer. It accelerates all TCP-based applications. It eliminates inefficiencies
of current TCP implementations in the presence of packet loss and long latency.
It thus provides the most benefit in transferring large files over long-fat
or lossy paths. For large file transfers, slow-start is less important
than TCP's steady state behavior (congestion avoidance algorithm)
and this is what we have optimized.
I'll be happy to answer any questions. Feel free to give me a call
at 626 357-7012, or email me at info@fastsoft.com
Steven