[Cake] CAKE is going to be deployed on Alta Labs any day now!

[Jonathan Morton]

> On 19 Mar, 2025, at 12:01 am, Frantisek Borsik via Cake <cake at lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:
> 
> Should be pushed through production in day or two and they will be talking about it on https://streamyard.com/watch/ubYm2AffWkYi this Wednesday,  March 19, at 1PM EST / 12PM CST / 11AM MST / 10AM PST

I joined the stream, and was able to ask about the throughput they were getting with CAKE on their hardware.  This is just for the "Route 10" rather than their APs, and they reported getting about 2.5Gbps throughput with CAKE enabled. They do correctly note that the hardware-accelerated forwarding path is disabled for the interface where CAKE is turned on.

Supporting 2.5Gbps is pretty good I think, and should be sufficient to handle all practical Internet subscriptions that are likely to require bufferbloat mitigation.  For comparison, on the same call they claimed about 800Mbps throughput for acting as a WireGuard tunnel endpoint.

 - Jonathan Morton