nanocosmos publishes first commercial performance data for Media over QUIC
July 30, 2026 18.06 Europe/London By Jörn Krieger

German real-time video streaming solutions provider nanocosmos has released the first publicly available performance dataset from the commercial deployment of Media over QUIC (MOQ), offering new insight into how the emerging transport technology performs in live production environments.

The dataset is based on real-world traffic collected from paying customers using its global content delivery network (CDN) across Europe, Asia, North America, South America, Africa and Oceania, according to the Berlin-based company. The figures compare the performance of WebTransport-based MOQ with WebSocket delivery, measuring player connection times and end-to-end latency.

According to nanocosmos, WebTransport consistently outperformed WebSocket in both metrics across all six regions. The company reported latency improvements of between 25% and 50%, while maintaining end-to-end latency at around 500 milliseconds with fewer performance outliers.

The data was collected during May 2026 and was presented publicly for the first time at the Fraunhofer FOKUS Media Web Symposium (MWS) in Berlin in June 2026.

“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 at nanocosmos.

MOQ, which is being developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), is designed to improve the delivery of live media over the internet using the QUIC transport protocol. While the specification remains under development, nanocosmos said it has been running MOQ in commercial production since mid-2025, targeting applications where ultra-low latency is critical, including iGaming, live auctions, sports betting, financial services and interactive entertainment.

The newly released figures represent the first production-grade benchmark of MOQ based on live viewer traffic rather than laboratory testing, stresses nanocosmos. Unlike deployments that rely on third-party infrastructure, the company operates its own end-to-end streaming platform, including its CDN and browser player, enabling it to monitor and optimise MOQ performance throughout the delivery chain.

Alongside its commercial deployment, nanocosmos is working to broaden industry adoption of MOQ. Its initiatives include contributing support for the protocol to widely used production software such as OBS and expanding its nanoReady partner programme to encourage hardware and software vendors to integrate the technology.

With the publication of the dataset, nanocosmos aims to provide the industry with practical evidence of MOQ’s performance as the protocol moves towards standardisation and wider commercial adoption.