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Comment by scottlamb

2 days ago

Very cool result, but I'm struggling to understand the baseline: what does "TCP + application FEC" mean? If everything is one TCP stream, and thus the kernel delivers bytes to the application strictly in order, what does application FEC accomplish? Or is it distributed across several TCP streams?

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