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External Impact of Work at CAIA
We are always humbled and excited to hear from people
and companies that are making use of the work we do here
at CAIA. Having obtained the permission of the people
and companies named below, we would like to share some
of the kind words of acknowledgment and appreciation we
have received over the years.
“As a company focused on delivering our
customers with cutting edge technology based on
real-world research and development, FastSoft
prides itself on keeping a finger on the pulse.
FastSoft's range of FreeBSD-based TCP
acceleration products make use of CAIA's modular
congestion control work to reduce our time to
market. Other tools released by the
NewTCP
project like SIFTR and DPD could also help us
with our development and quality assurance
testing. We would like to thank CAIA for their
work and choice of BSD license, which simplifies
the tech transfer to companies like
FastSoft.”
Cheng Jin, CTO, FastSoft Inc.
October, 2009
“Professor Armitage has a passion for encouraging students
and recent graduates to undertake practical research projects
intended to have a positive impact on the Internet's stable
operation. I've been impressed by their small projects (such
as the 'Greynets'
network monitoring toolkit that inspired RFC 6018), their outside-the-box
research (such as L3DGEWorld
for visualising 'greynet' and other network activity),
and their development and testing of enhancements to FreeBSD's
network stack (such as a new modular congestion control framework,
implementations of HTCP, CUBIC and VEGAS, and detailed per-packet
tracking of TCP sessions state from their
newtcp project).
In addition, CAIA's recent work on new approaches to delay-based
TCP is having a positive influence on some of our internal product
development efforts.”
Fred Baker, Cisco Fellow, Cisco Systems
November 2010
“The FreeBSD Foundation has been very
pleased to sponsor research by Professor
Armitage, Mr Stewart, Dr Hayes and others at
CAIA, which has been critical to improving
functionality and performance of the FreeBSD TCP
stack. CAIA is one of very few organisations with
a truly hands-on approach to TCP congestion
research, ranging from advanced analysis tools
such as SIFTR, to practical implementations and
evaluations of a variety of existing and novel
congestion control techniques -- making them an
ideal match for high-impact open source technology
transition. The results of their research now
appear in countless FreeBSD-derived products that
may be found in Internet service provider
environments and widely used routers and storage
appliances. We look forward to continuing our
research and development partnership with CAIA
in the future.”
Dr Robert N.M. Watson, Vice President, FreeBSD Foundation
January 2012
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