Years ago I used to commute to and from work. What was normally a 30-minute drive off-peak was easily three times that during rush hour. Luckily for me, I was a geek back then, too. I “read” so many ...

Right now, as any smartphone owner knows, a phone or tablet will either use Wi-Fi or 4G or 3G—and never at the same time. So your streaming video may cut out because the network you were using dropped ...

After iOS 7 launched on Wednesday, it was discovered that Apple included a new networking protocol called Multipath TCP in the next-gen operating system, allowing devices like the iPhone to ...

The world was a simpler place when the TCP/IP network protocol suite was first designed. The net was slow and primitive and it was often a triumph to get a connection to a far-away host at all. The ...

In the past, Google has created alternatives to widely used networking protocols such as SPDY in order to deliver search results as fast as possible. Apple is now doing something similar by having ...

Multipath TCP stands a good chance of catching on as a Layer 4 networking technology, and if that happens, there are big security questions that no one seems to be addressing, according to researchers ...

The need for hardy networking connections has led to the development of Multipath TCP (MPTCP), which allows a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) connection to use multiple paths to maximize resource ...

Since the official release of iOS 7 on Wednesday, everyone is trying to find some more helpful features which may have been gone out of the limelight due to the immense number of new features ...

Apple’s iOS 7 is the first large-scale use of a newly-minted Internet protocol, called multipath TCP. It lets computers send and receive data across different network paths and interfaces at the same ...

A talk at Black Hat will expose security weaknesses introduced by multipath TCP, extensions to TCP that bring resilience and efficiency to networking. If multipath TCP is the next big thing to bring ...

It seems to me that you are saying that an application doing explicit multipathing now will continue to need to be explicit about it in the future. And yes, when the ability to control MPTCP at the ...