Google has a history of using Ethernet to solve problems at scale and improve the transport layer for demanding workloads. With the rise of AI/ML training and high-performance computing, the need for high bandwidth, low latency, and high message rates has grown. Google has shared its expertise in traffic shaping, congestion control, and load balancing with the industry. Now, Google has developed Falcon, a hardware-assisted transport layer that offers improved performance over software-only solutions. Falcon is designed to be reliable, high-performance, and low latency, and it leverages various technologies. Google believes Falcon will have a valuable impact on modernizing Ethernet and meeting the networking requirements of the AI-driven future. Several industry partners support Falcon’s promise for developing the next generation of Ethernet.
https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/systems/introducing-falcon-a-reliable-low-latency-hardware-transport