Tencent Cloud's home-grown traffic-tamer halves WAN latency

MegaTE can arrange things so each endpoint gets just the network it needs

Sigcomm 2024  Chinese web giant Tencent has revealed “MegaTE”, a traffic engineering (TE) system it uses on its own cloud and which it claims outperforms rivals by tailoring network configurations to the needs of individual flows generated by VMs or containers.…