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Re:Life beyond HTTP 1.1: Google’s SPDY by rfugger on Thursday April 07, 2011 @03:59PM (#2420992)
The source of the comparison is that the main thrust of both SCTP and SPDY is multiplexing multiple independent data streams on a single connection.
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Re:Life beyond HTTP 1.1: Google’s SPDY by piotrSikora on Thursday April 07, 2011 @04:27PM (#2421073)
Is is, really? For me multiplexing is just nice addition to SPDY.

Personally, I consider "server pushes" as the main feature and "full encryption and compression" as nice improvements.

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Re:Life beyond HTTP 1.1: Google’s SPDY by Lennie on Tuesday April 12, 2011 @03:37PM (#2438806)
Well, the primary reason for the existence of SPDY is encryption everywhere and speed. Something which with current HTTP/HTTPS doesn't really exist. HTTPS is still slower than HTTP and HTTP is slower than SPDY.

A lot of the speed increase comes from the use of multiplexing. So without it, it wouldn't be able to achieve most of it's goals.

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