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A 5G future

O'Reilly

Back in the 1980s, Nicholas Negroponte said everything wired will become wireless, and everything wireless will become wired. Can 5G replace wired broadband, allowing one wireless service for home and mobile connectivity? I’d gladly give up my 50 Mbps wired connection for gigabit wireless. I don’t, do you?

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Notes on 'It's a Write/Read Mobile Web'

Tim Kadlec

“The Mobile Moment”—when your mobile traffic crosses your desktop traffic and becomes your majority experience. Reducing 23 inputs to 11 for Boingo Wireless signup increased conversions by 34% and 53% decrease in sign-up time. Example: Polar on Google Glass would be cumbersome as it requires multiple voice input.

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HTTP/3: Practical Deployment Options (Part 3)

Smashing Magazine

mvfst (Facebook), MsQuic , (Microsoft), (Google), ngtcp2 , LSQUIC (Litespeed), picoquic , quicly (Fastly). Note that there is an Apache Traffic Server implementation, though.). Traffic for one connection must, of course, always be routed to the same back-end server (the others wouldn’t know what to do with it!). Implementation.

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HTTP/3: Performance Improvements (Part 2)

Smashing Magazine

One of the reasons Google saw very good 0-RTT results for QUIC was that it tested it on its already heavily optimized search page, where query responses are quite small. Initial tests by Google , for example, show low percentage improvements for its use cases. This is why there is a split between client and server CIDs in QUIC.