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Re: TCP

2007-12-16 20:17:46
On Dec 16, 2007 3:17 PM, Tony Finch <dot(_at_)dotat(_dot_)at> wrote:
On Sat, 15 Dec 2007, Fred Baker wrote:
On Dec 15, 2007, at 2:17 AM, Jeyasekar Antony wrote:

I heard that TCP is not suitable for high speed network because of its
is it true? is there any research work going on in this context?

TCP can fill a big pipe as long as the RTT isn't high and the packet
loss rate is near zero.

-G

you might look at tcpm.

Also http://www.aciri.org/floyd/hstcp.html

The discussions happen across our high speed (2.5 and 10 G in many
places) backbone, and use SMTP, which runs on TCP

Hardly the best example of an application that needs to get maximum
bandwidth out of a connection. Practically no SMTP connections will
get near to filling the BDP of that kind of network.

Tony.
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