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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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.