es In a recent decodeTV article, Setplex’s Solutions Architect, Sergey Yarosh, shares his expert perspective on Media-over-QUIC (MoQ) — a protocol that many in the industry believe could fundamentally reshape how video content is delivered over the internet.
The article, by Stuart Thomson, explores how the migration from broadcast to streaming is driving demand for lower latency, better scalability, and smarter traffic handling. MoQ, built on the QUIC transport protocol, promises to address these challenges by offering tunable latency, a publish-subscribe delivery model, and the ability to send independent streams that can be prioritised in real time.
Sergey highlights what makes MoQ so compelling from a technical standpoint: “MoQ looks really promising. When you have adaptivity inside your transport protocol, that’s amazing. You don’t have to care about things at the application level — adaptivity just works under the hood,” he says. He also points to the protocol’s versatility, noting that it can be used for any data requiring ultra-low latency, such as real-time sports betting, and that its unique pub-sub approach lets content providers publish once while end clients subscribe to the content they need.
At the same time, Sergey is candid about the challenges ahead. Implementing MoQ requires a complete change of infrastructure across the entire delivery pipeline, and keeping up with rapid protocol revisions adds further complexity. “It’s a transformational technology but it needs a root and branch change in every part of the delivery infrastructure,” he explains.
Read the full article on decodeTV here.
