OpenMOQ Software Consortium | Advancing MOQ Protocol

Shared Cost & Effort
Distribute development costs across organizations
Accelerated Development
Leverage collective expertise for rapid MOQ advancement
Enhanced Interoperability
Ensure compatibility with standardized, open-source implementations
Strategic Differentiation
Focus resources on unique value, not reinventing the foundation
Market Growth
Lower barriers, enabling new use cases

MOQ is designed for tunable latency regimes

From real-time interactive experiences to sub-second live streaming to on-demand playback.

Key benefits of using MOQ

Tunable Latency Regimes
From real-time to sub-second to VOD (any-latency streaming), even with a single media publisher
Broadcast Scale
Supports delivery across millions of sessions
High Performance & Reliability
Built by companies who run infrastructure at scale
Robust Architecture
Clean, maintainable, and flexible by design
Open-Source Foundation
What we build may be freely used by the industry
Integrated Signaling
Simplified and versatile configurations for greater reliability and ease of deployment

What is MOQ?

MOQ: Balancing Latency, Scale & Complexity

Tunable Latency Regimes + Broadcast Scale + Robust Architecture

MOQ is the next evolution in streaming protocols, designed for modern live, real-time, and on-demand applications.

It provides a foundation that unifies low-latency interactivity with scalability and flexibility, supporting both live and non-real-time scenarios such as caching, time-shifted playback, and VOD.

MOQ is built to balance the trade-offs between latency, scale, and complexity without forcing compromises.

Modern Foundations

QUIC protocol
Native security, multiplexing, partial reliability, and improved performance
WebTransport
Browser compatibility
Independent streams
Prevent head-of-line blocking
Connection migration
Mobile resilience

Smart Media Delivery

Pub/sub model for efficient distribution
Fine-grained prioritization
Adaptive quality based on network conditions
Support for interactive and live content

Beyond the media

Designed for media, but works for any real-time data needing efficient distribution

Live sports data
Financial feeds
Collaborative editing
Gaming
Metric collection and monitoring
Connecting to AI/ML models
IoT sensors
AR/VR and immersive applications

Who's behind the initiative

OpenMOQ brings competing companies together to define a new standard for real-time media transport

We collaborate on the underlying protocol, while continuing to differentiate through our products and services.

The following companies have expressed an interest in being founding members

Akamai
CDN77
Cisco
Synamedia
YouTube

Development Status & Roadmap

Talks & Alignment
Industry discussions completed
Plan Agreed
Technical roadmap and collaboration framework established
Company setup
Legal structure & governance in progress
MVP Components
Core infrastructure development upcoming

Building Open-Source MOQ Streaming Software

Why OpenMOQ?