The key point here is the deployment model: only change sender, no network or receiver side change. This means if you see even 5% improvement people are going t

The key point here is the deployment model: only change sender, no network or receiver side change. This means if you see even 5% improvement people are going to deploy it. Also the key architect seems Neal Cardwell and simply using Van Jacobson as a signoff/vetting authority. Eric Dumazet has long done a lot of work on TCP pacing (look at his prev patches) Basically all this means is that we have a form of TCP Pacing that can work (but suffers from classic prisoner's dilemma)