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For a long time enterprise firewalls (and more recently SD-WAN) allowed load balancing between different links, but unlike MPTCP the traffic of a single TCP connection is not split up. This is in line with the established network admin wisdom saying that reordering packets of a TCP connection hurts performance.

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