MainStreaming has joined the OpenMOQ Software Consortium to contribute engineering resources to the development of open-source implementations of the IETF's Media over QUIC and QUIC standards. The partnership focuses on advancing ultra-low-latency transport protocols for scalable media delivery.
This move signals a critical shift from experimental research to practical implementation for Media over QUIC (MoQ). By contributing operational expertise, MainStreaming helps bridge the gap between abstract IETF drafts and production-ready code for large-scale broadcasters. As the industry seeks to collapse the trade-off between the sub-second latency of WebRTC and the cost-efficiency of HLS, OpenMOQ acts as a central hub for interoperability. The success of these open-source implementations will determine if MoQ can become the third pillar of delivery next to HLS/DASH and WebRTC. Watch for the consortium's next technical roadmap update to see how MainStreaming’s relay and playback contributions affect the protocol's maturity.
Additional context: The OpenMOQ Software Consortium, founded by Akamai, CDN77, Cisco, Red5, Synamedia, and YouTube, has emerged as the primary vehicle for coordinating open-source MoQ development. According to Red5 (July 2026), the consortium recently endorsed the 'Playa' player framework as a standard template to ensure regional and device-level interoperability. This alignment is timely, as IETF’s Media over QUIC Transport (MOQT) recently advanced to draft-19 (July 2026), moving the protocol closer to formal RFC status expected in early 2027. Production experiments are already yielding concrete benchmarks; per nanocosmos (June 2026), commercial deployments using MoQ have demonstrated latency improvements of 25% to 50% over traditional WebSocket delivery, consistently maintaining end-to-end lag at approximately 500 milliseconds across global CDNs.
Broad implementation support was notably visible at NAB Show 2026, where eleven vendors, including AWS, Bitmovin, and Cloudflare, demonstrated the first large-scale MoQ interoperability workflows. Cloudflare has already integrated MoQ relay capabilities into its production network across 330 cities (May 2026), while Oracle has launched MoQ-based relay services within its Oracle Video @ Edge platform. This momentum is further bolstered by the March 2026 'Baseline' designation of WebTransport in major browsers like Chrome, Edge, and Safari, finally providing the universal transport layer required for MoQ to reach mass audiences without specialized plug-ins. MainStreaming’s entry joins a maturing ecosystem focused on displacing expensive WebRTC server-side architectures for one-to-many live broadcasts.
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