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by aavegmittal 3938 days ago
Agreed. TCP is a great general purpose communication protocol, but using it in all situations is probably not a good idea. For eg, for a specific case of mobile networks, a custom protocol built over UDP could out perform TCP. details here:

https://packetzoom.com/blog/lessons-learned-tcp-slow-start-d...