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1. brutuscat ◴[] No.14299966[source]
First saw it at the morning paper: https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/03/31/bbr-congestion-based-con...

This is the story of how members of Google’s make-tcp-fast project developed and deployed a new congestion control algorithm for TCP called BBR (for Bandwidth Bottleneck and Round-trip propagation time), leading to 2-25x throughput improvement over the previous loss-based congestion control CUBIC algorithm.