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To: Don Dorsey who wrote (31144)3/19/1998 10:07:00 AM
From: BillyG  Read Replies (1) of 50808
 
Are they talking about us.... Video SI would be scary, no? TCP/IP, the communications protocol of the internet, was not designed to handle satellite traffic efficiently (it takes a half second to bounce a message off a geosynchronous satellite -- ever talk an an overseas satellite link?). There are proposals to modify TCP/IP to handle satellite as well as multicast traffic more efficiently. I am certain that Divicom is working in this area.

techweb.cmp.com

<<As the transport layer of the TCP/IP Internet protocols, TCP takes the
information for packet transmission, breaks it into pieces and then numbers
each piece, so receipt can be verified and the data put back in the proper
order. Because TCP requires an acknowledgement - unlike the "send
and pray" Use Datagram Protocol (UDP) for packet transport - it can
experience significant latencies in such long-haul links as
satellite-to-terminal connections. IP Multicast regularly uses UDP, but
some software developers want better control over packet services.>>
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