LibreQos v1.3 is released

[Dave Taht]

from:

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/libreqoe-releases-version-1-3-of-their-isp-quality-of-experience-framework-301697634.html?tc=eml_cleartime


EL PASO, Texas, Dec. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The 1.3 release of
LibreQoS enables quality-of-experience (QoE) monitoring and traffic
shaping for Internet Service Providers. Multiple real-world
deployments are maximizing the quality of service for ISPs with
tens-of-thousands of customers, and with traffic exceeding 20 gigabits
per second – on affordable x86 hardware.

Robert Chacón, Chief Executive Officer at LibreQoE, explains why he
created LibreQoS: "It started during COVID. I wanted to make sure
voice and video calls always 'just worked'. My ISP needed to provide
excellent connections for my customer's employment and education. And
we succeeded. Videoconferencing, Voice over IP, and gaming now always
work great, even during big downloads or uploads. Best of all, since
we've now released it as Open Source, any ISP can use LibreQoS, and
make a better Internet for all your customers, almost overnight."

Dave Täht, co-founder of the Bufferbloat Project, commented: "The
FQ-Codel (RFC8290) and the newer CAKE packet scheduling/AQM algorithms
are nearly universal on servers and clients. They give the "little
guy" – the small packets, the first packets in a new connection to
anywhere – a boost until the flow achieves parity with other flows
from other sources. DNS, gaming traffic, VoIP, videoconferencing, any
new flow, to anywhere, get a small boost. That's it. After that, all
network traffic gets treated equally. Big flows – from Netflix,
Google, Comcast, your Mom, or to Timbuktu – all achieve parity, with
minimal delay and buffering, at the worldwide variety of real round
trip times."

But until recently, the CAKE algorithm, used in high-quality home
routers, was too CPU-intensive for an ISP to apply generally. "I'm
pleased, no, thrilled, to see how well we've got CAKE to scale to
enormous numbers of subscribers and provide unheard of consistently
low latency for all forms of internet access," said Herbert Wolverson,
Chief Product Officer at LibreQoE. "We're getting the best
speedtest.net results anyone has ever seen. Our hat is off to the
creators of CAKE and the new Linux XDP and eBPF subsystems. We hope to
contribute back!"

Hayden Simon – of Uber, an ISP in New Zealand – writes of their beta
test: "All our tech support calls about "speed" just vanished. Panic
ensued. Were our phones broken? Were our customers' phones broken? Was
their Internet broken? Thankfully no – LibreQoS v1.3 was working
amazingly; it's just that good. Based on the metrics we got back from
it, on other problem points in our network, we're now also deploying
CAKE and FQ_Codel to our CPE as rapidly as possible, also."

For more information, the LibreQoS team can be reached at
https://libreqos.io/ or at #libreqos:matrix.org.



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