kergulen1
join:2002-02-04
San Jose, CA
| What isn't FAST
I think everyone, especially the reporter, totally misunderstands what FAST is, and what it will do. FAST has absolutely nothing to do with residential end users. FAST is a project sponsored primarily by the international high energy physics community (HENP) to attempt to develop a way to share massive amounts of data between widely physically separated locations at very high speed. This involves several components, only one of which may have some relevance to residential customers. Since none of us are ever likely to have parallelized OC12 uplinks to our home, we can forget about achieving anything like what FAST has achieved. What is fast is doing that is relevant - to residential users, and all other internet users, especially backbone ISPs, is trying to get switch/router vendors to drop the antiquated RENO algorithm, and try using VEGAS or modified VEGAS in an effort to reduce congestion induced packet loss and the consequent performance loss across WAN connections. For more details, see the FAST homepage:
»netlab.caltech.edu/FAST/ |
