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Does QUIC help with overcoming the bandwidth delay product? Are web page loads with QUIC enabled faster on 1Gbps vs 10Mbps?
by virtuallynathan 12y ago
Does QUIC help with overcoming the bandwidth delay product? Are web page loads with QUIC enabled faster on 1Gbps vs 10Mbps?
- apenwarr 12y agoThe bandwidth-delay product is a limitation of physics so you can't exactly "overcome" it. But because QUIC is implemented in userspace instead of the kernel, assumptions the kernel makes (like "the bandwidth-delay product will never be >= x") can be avoided in a cross-platform way, allowing for interesting, low-cost experiments that can later feed into improved TCP implementations (which take much longer to deploy).