WebRTC vs. MoQ — Two Protocols, One Platform Completely Built for Both

Two powerful protocols. One streaming platform built for both. Lets focus on what happens today and what’s waiting for us in the future as Ant Media Server perspective. The live streaming world is buzzing about Media over QUIC (MoQ) — a new IETF-standard protocol that promises to combine the scalability of CDN-based streaming with the sub-second latency as we used to associate with WebRTC only so far. At Ant Media Server, we’ve built our platform around WebRTC since day one as known globally. So the question we get asked constantly is: Should you be worried? Is WebRTC dead? The short answer: No. But MoQ is genuinely exciting — and understanding the difference between the two is critical to making smart infrastructure decisions now and also for future. Two Protocols, Two Philosophies WebRTC and MoQ weren’t designed for the same problem. They emerged from different eras, different constraints, and different visions of what the real-time web should look like. WebRTC- Web Real-Time Communi