On Tue, Jul 01, 2014 at 04:38:47PM +0000, Fred Baker (fred) wrote:
> Were I Netflix and company, and for that matter Youtube, I would handle
> delay at the TCP sender by using a delay-based TCP congestion control
> algorithm. There is at least one common data center provider that I
> think does that; they told me that they had purchased a congestion
> control algorithm (although the guy I was speaking with didn’t know what
> they bought or from whom), and the only one I know of that is for sale
> in that sense is a pretty effective delay-based algorithm.

Oh, people actually using FASP [1]?  Or is it something else?
(don't look too hard at the description if you are allergic to marketing bullshit)


[1] http://asperasoft.com/technology/transport/fasp