Bob Briscoe (Chief researcher at the BT Network Research Centre) is on a mission to tackle one of the biggest problems facing the Internet. He wants the world to know that TCP (Transmission Control ...

Last time, we discussed the fact that TCP has a flow control mechanism for each connection. The mechanism is based on a field in the segment header called the “Advertised Window”. The Advertised ...

Today, Saisei is revealing a set of what it calls network performance enforcement (NPE) products, saying they can help TCP/IP behave better in enterprise and service provider networks. The product ...