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Abstract

An apparatus for bandwidth management of TCP traffic on a communications network that apparatus comprises a forward data controller, a backward Ack controller, and a post-acknowledgement control machine. The forward data controller has a queuing space of a plurality of buffer registers for queuing outbound data of the TCP traffic. The backward Ack controller has a plurality of queues each having a plurality of buffer registers for queuing inbound Acks of the TCP traffic. The post-acknowledgement control machine includes an Ack-pacing controller for controlling the queuing of the backward Ack controller. The Ack-pacing controller subsequently allows the release of each of the inbound Acks queued in backward Ack buckets of the backward Ack controller to the sender of the outbound data upon determining that the queues in the forward data controller is at least partially emptied by sending the queued outbound data to the receiver of the outbound data.

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