nanocosmos publishes first commercial MOQ performance data from live video deployments
June 29, 2026 15.49 Europe/London By Jörn Krieger

German real-time video delivery service provider nanocosmos has released the first publicly available performance dataset for global Media over QUIC (MOQ) delivery based on traffic from commercial video streaming deployments.

The data, presented at the Fraunhofer FOKUS Media Web Symposium 2026 in Berlin on 16-17 June 2026, was collected from paying customers using the nanocosmos platform across six continents over a twelve-month period. According to the company, the dataset measures player connection times and latency from real viewer sessions in Europe, Asia, North America, Africa, South America and Oceania.

Nanocosmos has been running MOQ in commercial production since mid-2025, targeting sectors where low-latency video delivery is critical, including iGaming, sports betting, live auctions, financial services and interactive entertainment.

The Berlin-based company compared performance between WebSocket and WebTransport-based MOQ implementations, focusing on player connection times and end-to-end latency, including buffering, decoding and rendering.

According to nanocosmos, WebTransport consistently outperformed WebSocket across all regions measured. The company said latency improvements ranged between 25% and 50%, while maintaining end-to-end latency at around 500 milliseconds globally with fewer outliers and improved median performance.

“This is not data we collected from ourselves, our research group, or test environments. We collect this from our customers. That makes it different,” said Luiza Sadowska, Developer Advocate and member of the Player Team at nanocosmos.

MOQ remains under development within the Internet Engineering Task Force standardisation process. Nanocosmos is among the first companies to deploy the technology commercially before formal standardisation is completed. The company attributes its ability to collect the data to its end-to-end architecture, operating its own content delivery network and playback technology without relying on third-party infrastructure.

Nanocosmos is also working to expand adoption of MOQ across the streaming ecosystem. According to the company, this includes efforts to enable support for the protocol in widely used streaming tools such as OBS Studio and the expansion of its NanoReady partner programme to hardware and software vendors.

The company will showcase its MOQ-based streaming platform at the European technology exhibition GITEX Europe 2026 at Messe Berlin on 30 June and 1 July 2026.

Founded in 1998, nanocosmos provides cloud-based video production and ultra-low-latency streaming services through its nanoStream and nanoStudio platforms. The company operates its own global CDN and has offered ultra-low-latency streaming services since 2015.