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Well, the key would be to develop and deploy Homa in a DC and test in implementation at scale. If it actually ameliorates the perceived shortcomings of TCP that
by BirAdam 4y ago
Well, the key would be to develop and deploy Homa in a DC and test in implementation at scale. If it actually ameliorates the perceived shortcomings of TCP that make nothing in TCP worth keeping as this author says, then cool. My only complain with issues like this is the cost of implementation. Someone has to pay to build a DC around it or increase the cost of maintenance for several years to a decade while supporting two completely different and incompatible networks.
- adobrawy 4y agoHoma protocl can be deployed on the basis of existing switches (not all of them, but some of them will play well). See also https://github.com/PlatformLab/HomaModule https://github.com/PlatformLab/HomaModule . In addition, a closed environment and the SDN's popularity in large data centers is a significant cost-reducing factors compared to typical IPv6 deployment.
- MuffinFlavored 4y agoDumb question, there's no way to talk to a PC over the Internet with Homa, right? Since our home ISPs + routers are all only doing UDP/TCP over IPv4/IPv6? Homa is mainly for "LAN"?
- wmf 4y agoYes.
- MuffinFlavored 4y agoWill we ever see the day where computers over the Internet talk to each other over something other than UDP/TCP over IPv4/IPv6?
- wmf 4y agoGiven Google and Apple's efforts to de-ossify the Internet, maybe. But no time soon.
- topranks 4y agoHmm I didn’t really read about it. The proposal here is to replace IP as well as TCP? Good luck pulling that off.