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<h1 class="entry-title">A transport protocol’s view of Starlink</h1>
<p class="meta-author-and-date"> By <a
href="https://blog.apnic.net/author/geoff-huston/"
title="Posts by Geoff Huston" rel="author">Geoff Huston</a> on
17 May 2024 </p>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://blog.apnic.net/2024/05/17/a-transport-protocols-view-of-starlink/">https://blog.apnic.net/2024/05/17/a-transport-protocols-view-of-starlink/</a></p>
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<p>Digital communications systems always represent a collection
of design tradeoffs. Maximizing one characteristic of a system
may impair others, and various communications services may
choose to optimize different performance parameters based on
the intersection of these design decisions with the physical
characteristics of the communications medium.</p>
<p>In this article, I’ll look at how TCP, the workhorse
transport protocol of the Internet, interacts with the
characteristics of the <a href="https://www.starlink.com/"
target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Starlink service</a>.</p>
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<p>Nice analysis of the satellite handoff's effects on Reno, CUBIC,
and BBR. Lots of graphs.</p>
<p>[Apologies if this was already discussed here. I checked the May
archives and didn't see the link or author's name.]</p>
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