I think if that were their claim, they might be running up against the laws of physics. Wires aren't going to carry 30x their current throughput no matter what the protocol is.
There's a reason it doesn't. Packet loss means the links between Japan and Europe are congesting, and people should back off with their sending speeds.
If they don't, we won't have an internet anymore. This protocol looks designed to make that happen.
Basically it's a software solution that transmits over UDP with their own mix of algorithms to make it reliable, but faster than TCP. TCP is broken on mobile, anyway [1]. So, this should be good news.
Monetizing a protocol is poor form, but monetizing an implementation of a protocol is not.
If they created a new protocol specification, and opened it up, _and_ their implementation (which could be proprietary for all i care) is faster, then its all fine. As long as other people could implement the protocol in a different way without infringing on patents.
Realistically, normal TCP works fine in most cases and multiple parallel TCP connections (a la GridFTP or BitTorrent) can fix the other cases. TCP replacements tend to be pretty complex and some of them are proprietary, so IMO it's just not worth the complexity.
why? does it contain nothing new? have software patents suddenly become worthless?