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I normally like Google blog announcements, as they are usually heavy on technical details. But not this one. Quoting, the meat of it is: > Fine-grained hardw
by rstuart4133 3y ago
I normally like Google blog announcements, as they are usually heavy on technical details. But not this one. Quoting, the meat of it is:
> Fine-grained hardware-assisted round-trip time (RTT) measurements with flexible, per-flow hardware-enforced traffic shaping, and fast and accurate packet retransmissions, are combined with multipath-capable and PSP-encrypted Falcon connections ... flexible ordering semantics and graceful error handling ... hardware and software are co-designed to work together to help achieve the desired attributes of high message rate, low latency, and high bandwidth
So like QUIC, but designed for low latency. Maybe. There is no indication of how they achieve it if it is, nor is there a link to further details. The bulk of the article is literally name dropping. Protocol names, FAANG company names, standards organisation names. It reads like C-suite bait. "Come join us boys - all the big guys already have. So it's a sure winner."