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SN345: Buffer Bloat

SN345: Buffer Bloat

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March 22, 2012

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Show Notes

After catching up with the week's news, Leo and I examine the growing concern over, and performance problems created by, the Internet's "Buffer Bloat," which has been silently creeping into our networks as the cost of RAM memory used for buffers has been dropping. It's easy to assume that more buffering is good, but that's not true for the Internet.