With the FAST protocol, the speed of the Internet can be spiked, but only for scientific researchers.
It is not always possible for the name of an object to describe in general the characteristics, characteristics or nature of the object. However, among the many notable exceptions, the FAST Internet Protocol is a typical example. So FAST is really fast as its name?
FAST is the acronym for Fast Active queue management Scalable Transmission Control Protocol . With this protocol, you can transmit the internal content of a DVD on the Internet. In last year's FAST trials and introductions, with the simultaneous delivery of 10 packets, scientists estimated the transfer rate to be as high as 8,609 Gbit / s (about 1 GByte / s), one record speed! (You can evaluate the meaning of this number when compared to the fact that a typical commercial DVD can hold about 4.7 gigabytes of data.)
Although the FAST protocol may not change the face of the Internet and how you access the Internet in the future (unless you are a scientist or researcher), its ability to do so Change some of the industry areas that you frequently encounter, such as the entertainment industry.
Research
Researchers at the Caltech University of California Network have developed the FAST protocol, based on the idea of creating a theoretical foundation for the Internet. In the 1990s, this work continued to evolve in a number of prestigious laboratories, including Cambridge University, University of Melbourne, Caltech, UCLA, the University of Illinois and the University of Massachusetts. The main goal of these efforts is to create ways of using the Internet in collaborative activities, thus enabling researchers and scientists to have the ability to share information faster and more effectively.
The researchers describe the FAST protocol as "an algorithm that controls the transmission of data in TCP". Basically, FAST pushes packets transmitted over the Internet at approximately the speed of the signal line. The traditional TCP protocol can hardly reach this maximum rate because its operational principle is to significantly reduce the data rate when a packet is lost.
FAST, also known as "fast TCP," works best when transmitting large amounts of data over high-speed lines at large distances. The FAST researchers hope the transfer rate will reach 1,000 Gbps in the future.
Applicability
Scientists and the entertainment industry - two subjects rarely share the benefits - now have a common interest in developing the FAST protocol.
Researchers are hoping for the ability to transmit enormous amounts of data on the Internet in a reasonable amount of time. Some research projects have enormous amounts of data, 1 TB (about 1,000 gigabytes) or even larger, and it would not be easy to transfer that data using existing technologies. Researchers in science subjects require the use of extremely large databases, such as high energy physics, nuclear physics, astronomy, global meteorological forecasting, medicine , etc., will benefit most from improving data transfer rates.
The FAST protocol also brings new opportunities to the entertainment industry and makes the media companies nervous and hopeful. FAST can dramatically improve the idea of developing services such as video-on-demand (video on demand) and pay-per-view (pay-per-view). Large corporations such as Disney and Microsoft have asked Caltech for advice on integrating FAST into the video-on-demand service. However, a high-speed protocol can also be a double-edged sword as it raises the issue of music and movie licensing. Users can download multiple multimedia files at the same time as copying a file at the moment.
Internet2
However, at present, the entertainment industry still has to accept the queue waiting. Researchers are now focusing their efforts on the application of FAST in Internet2, the collaboration between businesses, academics-trainers, and governments designed to build a new generation of Internet. Internet2 will be a super-fast environment, giving researchers the ability to access advanced and complex applications.
Although the FAST protocol may be backward-compatible with TCP and may share hardware, researchers do not expect this high-speed protocol to breakthrough the Internet infrastructure for end-users, for example, through dial-up, cable or DSL, because traditional TCP is almost reaching full speed on Internet connections for those connections. Researchers are focusing on developing and applying FAST in areas that are capable of significantly improving the transmission rate over TCP.
Therefore, unless you have used T3 lines and joined a large research group, you will most likely not receive direct benefits from FAST in the future. But once you ask for a movie and the content is completely downloaded before your cup of coffee has cooled down, think of FAST.
