CAFAI, le 20/09/2013 à 14:13
Multipath TCP is a solution that allows to simultaneously use multiple interfaces/IP-addresses for a single data-stream, while still presenting a standard TCP socket API to the application. Multipath TCP thus allows to increase the download-speed by aggregating the bandwidth of each interface. Additionally, MPTCP allows mobile hosts to handover traffic from WiFi to 3G, without disrupting the application. Various other use case exist for Multipath TCP in datacenters, for IPv6/IPv4 coexistence, ...
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