Editing FAST TCP (section)

{{Short description|TCP congestion avoidance algorithm}}
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'''FAST TCP''' (also written '''FastTCP''') is a [[TCP congestion avoidance algorithm]] especially targeted at long-distance, high latency links, developed at the Netlab, [[California Institute of Technology]] and now being commercialized by FastSoft. FastSoft was acquired by [[Akamai Technologies]] in 2012.<ref>{{cite web
 | last = Young
 | first = Jeff
 | title = Akamai Acquires FastSoft
 | agency = PR Newswire
 | date = 2012-09-13
 | url = http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/akamai-acquires-fastsoft-169678966.html
 | accessdate = 2012-09-13 }}</ref>

FastTCP is compatible with existing TCP algorithms, requiring modification only to the [[computer]] which is sending [[data]].