I see. I&#x27;m not sure if all of these things are fundamental to TCP itself, but instead are economic and regulatory results. Something to think about. It&#x27;s not my area so I don&#x27;t have specific cites, but data centers are effectively meshes. I know there has been work on different ways to transit data within them other than stock TCP&#x2F;IP. Network coding, for instance, is a pretty cool way to splat data among a whole bunch of interconnected people and UDP to all your peers is a good medium to do it over. There&#x27;s also work on multipath TCP (MCTCP, others) to help utilize other idle links.<p>I&#x27;d check the literature on that, typically under the data center track at networking conferences.