This is an important overview of the bufferbloat problem. Understanding this issue is essential for anyone who cares about networking (which is just about anyone technical today).
A choice quote from Jim’s post: “Low latency applications, including reliable high quality teleconferencing, have now become effectively impossible in today’s Internet.”
Originally shared by Jim Gettys
My latest blog posting on bufferbloat. Few seem to grok the problem as yet.
http://gettys.wordpress.com/2012/05/23/the-bufferbloat-bandwidth-death-march/