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From: Jonathan Morton <chromatix99@gmail.com>
To: Jan Ceuleers <jan.ceuleers@gmail.com>
Cc: bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net
Subject: Re: [Bloat] ultrafast broadband conference june 27-30
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2016 13:24:50 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E975E03F-0256-42E2-84FE-5A124DBD807D@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57652072.7020708@gmail.com>


> On 18 Jun, 2016, at 13:20, Jan Ceuleers <jan.ceuleers@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> These buffers are not inherent to the link technology.
>> If they were, we’d be calling for different link technology.
> 
> Thanks for confirming my suspicions. But this is exactly what Dave was
> doing, since he blamed the uplink bloat on "g.fast technologies".
> 
> So it seems that you and I agree that it's not G.fast itself that is
> bloated, but the lack of proper buffer management in certain (most?) DSL
> modems, regardless of whether they support G.fast or some other flavour
> of DSL.

Right.  We’re hoping that G.fast, being a new link technology, has taken on board some of the extensive research into buffer sizing and management, in typical device implementations.  But we’re not holding our breath - the industry is rather stubborn on this point.

 - Jonathan Morton


  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-18 10:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-13 16:05 Dave Taht
2016-06-15  5:43 ` Pedro Tumusok
2016-06-18  8:04 ` Jan Ceuleers
2016-06-18 10:09   ` Jonathan Morton
2016-06-18 10:20     ` Jan Ceuleers
2016-06-18 10:24       ` Jonathan Morton [this message]
2016-06-18 10:38         ` Jan Ceuleers
2016-06-18 10:51           ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-06-18 11:06             ` Jan Ceuleers
2016-06-18 11:14               ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-06-18 11:22                 ` Jan Ceuleers
2016-06-18 13:55                   ` Jonathan Morton
2016-06-18 14:07                     ` Dave Taht
2016-06-18 13:31                 ` Dave Taht

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