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Used a few of their products at a previous company. That's the gist of the protocol. It's UDP-based and the software has intelligence to use bandwidth as efficiently as possible between links. We had a few servers sending to many endpoints concurrently, and I'd regularly see the systems cap out their 10gbit connections.

License costs are pretty brutal and it does need decent amount CPU to make the most of it.



Are you able to recommend a resource for how to use bandwidth most efficiently like this? I'm interested in learning more, and would appreciate it. Also, might using raw sockets not offer better performance and lower CPU usage?


There is quite a bit of documentation on this particular snake oil: https://patents.justia.com/patent/20090063698

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_and_Secure_Protocol


What is it about it that makes it snake oil?


Looks like they are just throwing shade. It really does do what it says on the tin, it just costs too much for many uses.




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