[76740] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: More undersea cable wars brewing in India
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adrian Chadd)
Thu Dec 23 19:23:17 2004
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 00:22:47 +0000
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <102.56f74b75.2efc5ede@aol.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004, Laconsults@aol.com wrote:
> this already doubles TCP throughputs over inter-continental cables/
> satellites/ WAN links, just one-click install ( all window platforms TCP upgrade
> downloads to follow within a month ) .
> the cable link utilisation & also end user TCP throughput graphs will both
> show constant 95%-100% levels, cf existing saw-tooths.
Its not increasing the bandwidth of a fibre, its just allowing TCP streams to
use more bandwidth. Hacks to do this have been popping up here and there
for a number of years.
So how is it relevant to the international cable company practice(s) of
artifically limiting bandwidth to limit growth?
Adrian
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