As viewers consume more and more video each day, network congestion has become an increasing challenge for CDNs. Akamai announced today that it has responded to that challenge by completing rollout of ...

Google's BBR algorithm for handling TCP traffic congestion has gained huge ground this week after Google announced integration with Google Cloud, a cloud hosting platform offered by Google to ...

When it comes to internet speed, small, often obscure things can make a big difference. Take the congestion control algorithm. A piece of code standardized in the 1980s, the algorithm slows data ...

Google makes its websites faster than rival services by taking an “unfair” share of internet traffic using special code to dominate networks, it has emerged. Researchers have revealed that a Google ...

When users want to send data over the internet faster than the network can handle, congestion can occur — the same way traffic congestion snarls the morning commute into a big city. Computers and ...

Researchers discovered that congestion control algorithms designed to ensure multiple users sending data over a network do so fairly are actually unable to avoid situations where some users are ...