Will cheap RAM break the Internet?

Security: A Fair Bit

Article from Issue 127/2011
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An abundance of buffers hides the Internet’s dirty little secret.

In this article, I’m not going to talk about an emerging technology (don’t get me wrong, I love new technology) but about something even more interesting: An emergent behavior that was never expected: buffer-bloat.

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