[$] Moving past TCP in the data center, part2

At the end of our earlier article on JohnOusterhout's talk at Netdev 0x16, he had concludedthat TCP was unsuitable for data-center environments for a variety ofreasons. He also argued that there was no way to repair TCP so that itcould serve the needs of data-center networking. In order for software tobe able to use the full potential of today's networking hardware, TCP needs to bereplaced with a protocol that is different in almost every way, he said.The second half of the talk covered the Homatransport protocol that he and others at Stanford have been working onas a possible replacement for TCP in the data center.