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FastSoft Tweaks TCP to Accelerate the Internet

Posted on August 12, 2008

Dr. Steven Low, a professor at the California Institute of Technology, has spent much of his life studying transmission communication control protocol (TCP), a technology that allows us to send emails, watch online videos and make Skype calls. TCP essentially makes the Internet (as we know it) work.Through his work, part of a larger effort at the university, it was concluded that TCP, which came into existence in 1981, needed to be replaced by a more updated technology, one that could handle today s Internet traffic. This updated version would take into account ballooning file sizes, the ava...

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