Serves for improving and unifying TCP/IP performance for broadband long latency networks e.g. satellite, DVB-T with GPRS return path etc. Accelerator avoids negative reaction of TCP congestion window interpreting the long Round Trip Time (RTT) as traffic congestion and thus reducing the data send by server. It is based on transparent TCP/ip connection splitting into 3 TCP/ip connections:
- From Data Server (e.g maindata.info) to DVB satellite Up-link or DVB-T transmitter (center)
- From center to client terminal (receive-only or two way)
- From terminal to LAN user
At second (b) connection there is implemented enhanced acknowledging mechanism reflecting nature of satellite behavior - by implementing much larger TCP sliding window size, FEC mechanism etc. Keeping in mind that TCP/ip connection is host-to-host oriented in case one host e.g. web server uses only 8 kbyte large window size performance at network with RTT e.g. 700 msec can be max. 91 kbps, even when we have full transponder at disposal for single user. MD TCP/IP accelerator thus unifies performance for any Operating system and any setting of Data Server resulting in higher performance of TCP/IP connections.