Google Wants to Make the Internet Faster.
Google Wants to Make the Internet Faster. Here’s How. Google engineers are developing a new congestion control algorithm that would, upon integration, be capable of speeding up the entire internet. CONGESTION CONTROL As technology continues to advance at unprecedented speed, it sometimes seems as though the internet can’t seem to keep up. If we could improve internet speeds, however, it could allow emerging technology to flourish, as well as speed up research that’s already ongoing. Engineers at Google well understand the desire for faster internet, and have taken it upon themselves to ramp it up. The company plans to achieve this by creating a new congestion control algorithm, BBR (Bottleneck Bandwidth and Round-trip propagation time). This is the Fastest Internet on Earth Click to View Full Infographic BBR, an algorithm that was standardized back in the 1980s, detects when a network is overwhelmed and responds by slowing down data transfers. The algorithm might not seem al...