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Faster TCP: F5 Now Supports TCP Fast Open

Last summer I introduced TCP Early Retransmit and Tail Loss Probe, two new features intended to shave as much as a few hundred milliseconds off some TCP connections. That may not sound like a lot, bu...
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I work in the Office of the CTO on both F5's standards engagement process in general, and specifically on the application of transport-layer innovation to F5's product line. F5 sponsors my service as Transport Area Director at the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), where I help to administer standards development worldwide.
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I work in the Office of the CTO on both F5's standards engagement process in general, and specifically on the application of transport-layer innovation to F5's product line. F5 sponsors my service as Transport Area Director at the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), where I help to administer standards development worldwide.
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Jul 17, 2017

Martin,

 

Thanks for a good reminder how TCP starts a connection with a three-way handshake. Did you know that according to a Harvard Business Review article, more than half the world’s most valuable public companies have built business models on TCP/IP.

 

That’s $5.4 trillion in value traced right back to TCP/IP.

 

But the biggest names in the internet space—Amazon, Google, Facebook, Priceline, eBay, Netflix, Uber—are applications, not protocols.