> Sadly, academia is increasingly in the role of independently re-discovering what has been known for 10-20 years but treated as a secret. This has been true o

> Sadly, academia is increasingly in the role of independently re-discovering what has been known for 10-20 years but treated as a secret. This has been true of network programming for a long time as well. Private companies find novel ways of switching and routing packets, reducing latency, etc. and academia is left to pick up the pieces.