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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The data transfer in a TCP/IP network is usually block-based. From a programmer’s point of view, sending data means issuing a series of “send data block” requests. On a system level, sending an ...