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Re:We need internet that isn't owned by big telecom by justicezyx on Sunday December 17, 2017 @10:12PM (#15949123)
Bbr is about high bandwidth latency product network with low error rate.

Any window based retransmission protocol just breaks under high error rate, that what happens in wireless links.

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Re:We need internet that isn't owned by big telecom by stephen_g on Monday December 18, 2017 @12:11AM (#15949596)
No, BBR does deliver significant performance improvements in high packet loss links. It is designed as a general purpose algorithm (not just for high bandwidth links) - they are using it on the YouTube (and other) content servers as well as between their datacenters. I believe trying to optimise delivery of content to high loss, high latency mobile users was one of the use cases they designed for.

See slide 33 here for a comparison to CUBIC under packet loss - https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/98/slides/slides-98-iccrg-a...

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Re:We need internet that isn't owned by big telecom by justicezyx on Monday December 18, 2017 @12:55AM (#15949726)
I stand corrected.
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