David P. Reed <[email protected]> wrote: > Now if the satellite manages each flow from source to destination as a > "constant bitrate" virtual circuit, like Iridium did (in their case > 14.4 kb/sec was the circuit rate, great for crappy voice, bad for > data), the Internet might work over a set of wired-up circuits (lke > MPLS) where the circuits would be frequently rebuilt (inside the > satellite constellation, transparent to the Internet) so queuing delay > would be limited to endpoints of the CBR circuits.
That's what I think they will do.
But, it might be SPRING rather than MPLS.
> But I doubt that is where they are going. Instead, I suspect they
> haven't thought about anything other than a packet at a time, with no
> thought to reporting congestion by drops or ECN.
Agreed.
> And it's super easy to build up seconds of lag on TCP if you don't
> signal congestion. TCP just keeps opening its window, happy as a clam.
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