Bufferbloat: Dark Buffers in the Internet

We have conflated "speed" with "band width." As Stuart Chesire wrote in "It\´s the Latency, Stupid" (http://rescomp.stanford.edu/~cheshire/rants/Latency.html), "Making more bandwidth is easy. Once you have bad latency, you\´re stuck with it." Bufferbloat is the existence of excessively large (bloated) buffers in systems, particularly network communication systems. Bufferbloat is now (almost?) everywhere. Today\´s routers, switches, gateways, broad band gear, and so on have bloated buffer sizes to where we often measure latency in seconds, rather than microseconds or milliseconds.