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Meta deploys Media over QUIC for Instagram Live ingest

engineering.fb.com 8 min read Editor score 6/10

Meta has begun deploying Media over QUIC for Instagram Live ingest, aiming to simplify the streaming protocol stack and improve live video experience. The production deployment is relevant to teams evaluating protocols for real-time systems.

What: Media over QUIC (MoQ) is an open standard transport now deployed for Instagram Live ingest on iOS and Android.
How: MoQ sends addressable media-object Tracks from publishers through relays, which cache and forward objects without parsing payloads, to subscribers.
Why it matters: Using one transport across ingest, delivery, and playback could reduce the custom transports and operating models engineering teams must maintain.

MoQ relays cache and forward media objects from publishers to subscribers. Sketched from the article's own text.

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