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It's hard to evaluate your claim that ExtremeTCP is "the" solution, given that your website (1) does not compare your solution to the significant amount of literature and prior art in this space (eg, TCP Vegas, which is already implemented in the Linux kernel), (2) doesn't make any claims about friendliness to TCP Reno, which is the hardest part of retrofitting a new congestion control strategy onto the public Internet.

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Good points. We do have comparisons with most existing TCP solutions out there (at least the ones we were able to get a hold of). I did not put them up because I did not want to drown people in information. But I should put up a white paper that has more detailed test results.

By the way we do beat the the Linux TCP stack (which now uses Cubic TCP, afaik). The data shown on the site is Compound TCP, which is the current windows implementation.

Let me know if you would like to see the detailed test results.

I would wager that the kind of people who are reading a website about TCP replacements are very much looking to be drowned in information.

Unless I'm mistaken, you're not yet at the stage where you're selling a turnkey solutions to pointy haired bosses.

If you're going to claim "revolutionary new software," you will need a huge amount of information to convince people. Specifically, many experiments with detailed explanations of your methodology.

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