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Building Open-Source MOQ Streaming Software

The OpenMOQ Software Consortium, initiated by industry leaders, is focused on advancing the IETF’s MOQ and QUIC standards through the development of high-performance, open-source, application-level software. Our mission is to deliver practical software and implementations that enable the next generation of media transport.

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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 is built upon a number of foundational standards and technologies developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and detailed in the table below.

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.

Foundational standards and specifications

IETF QUIC protocol, RFC 9000
QUIC: A UDP-Based Multiplexed and Secure Transport. QUIC is a modern, general-purpose transport layer network protocol standardized by the IETF to provide faster, more secure, and more reliable connections compared to traditional TCP. It operates on top of User Datagram Protocol (UDP) and integrates encryption (TLS 1.3) directly into its connection handshake, reducing latency and mitigating head-of-line blocking.
IETF Media Over QUIC Transport
MOQT: Media over QUIC Transport (MOQT) is a publish/subscribe protocol that runs over QUIC and WebTransport. MOQT leverages the features of these transports, such as streams, datagrams, priorities, and partial reliability. MOQT operates both point-to-point and through intermediate relays, enabling scalable low-latency delivery.
IETF WebTransport
WebTransport enables clients constrained by the Web security model to communicate with a remote server using a secure multiplexed transport. It consists of a set of individual protocols that are safe to expose to untrusted applications, combined with an abstract model that allows them to be used interchangeably.
W3C WebTransport
A Web API enabling IETF WebTransport access in modern browsers, allowing web applications to establish interactive, bidirectional, multiplexed network connections.

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 implement new standards for real-time media transport

We collaborate on building application-level software and implementing the standards defined by the IETF and W3C , while continuing to differentiate through our products and services

Charter members

Standard members

Academic members

Supported by industry leaders

“OpenMOQ represents the future of collaborative infrastructure development.”

Will Law, Akamai
“With OpenMOQ, we are building the foundation for next-generation streaming.”

Michal Hosna, CDN77
“OpenMOQ will help accelerate building and deploying technologies that reduce latency. This will improve user experiences.”

Cullen Jennings, Cisco
“With OpenMOQ we have the opportunity to design a solid and efficient reference implementation, applying careful architecture so MOQ can serve both professional distribution and large-scale direct delivery.”

Gwendal Simon, Synamedia
“OpenMoQ will be instrumental in tackling the streaming latency and scale challenge, benefiting both content providers and viewers globally.”

Sean McCarthy, YouTube