Live sports has become streaming’s clearest reminder that latency is not a technical footnote. A delay of even a few seconds can mean hearing a neighbor celebrate a goal before it appears on screen and losing the shared sense of a live moment. At the same time, streaming platforms have to deliver that experience reliably to audiences that can number in the millions.
That combination of immediacy and scale is exactly why Media Over QUIC, or MOQ, has attracted so much attention. The emerging IETF effort is designed to support low-latency media delivery at scale, with live streaming among its primary use cases. At IBC 2026, Netskrt and Oracle will demonstrate that potential in practice, showing how a relay running within Netskrt’s network can coordinate with Oracle Video Edge as part of a distributed MOQ delivery path.
MOQ is built on QUIC, a transport protocol already widely used across the internet. QUIC allows multiple streams to travel independently within the same connection, so a problem affecting one stream does not necessarily hold up the others.
MOQ layers a media-specific model on top of that foundation that is particularly useful for live-streaming use cases. Publishers make media available, subscribers request it, and relays positioned throughout the network can receive, temporarily cache, and forward that media closer to viewers.
The relay is especially important. Rather than forcing every viewer connection to reach all the way back toward the source, MOQ can use distributed relay points to fan content out nearer to the audience. In simple terms, it is a little like moving inventory from one central warehouse into regional distribution points before demand arrives. The result is a model designed to reduce unnecessary network travel while supporting low-latency delivery at scale.
For Netskrt, MOQ is compelling because a protocol alone cannot create a better streaming experience. It needs infrastructure in the right places, with enough capacity to handle audience peaks and a way for independently operated networks to work together.
Netskrt is an independent CDN actively working to advance MOQ. Our broader approach to streaming delivery has long centered on bringing infrastructure closer to viewers and extending capacity into the networks that ultimately serve them. MOQ’s relay architecture fits naturally with that direction, creating new possibilities for distributing real-time media across infrastructure operated by multiple organizations.
Netskrt is pursuing MOQ as part of its own CDN strategy, while technical collaborations are essential to building an interoperable ecosystem. That is what makes our work with Oracle particularly important.
At IBC 2026, Netskrt and Oracle will demonstrate how this can work in practice. Oracle Video Edge, or OVE, is designed to coordinate relay infrastructure across cloud providers, CDNs, and
ISP networks so that independently operated environments can participate in a common delivery architecture.
For the IBC demonstration, an OVE containerized relay will run within Netskrt infrastructure and participate in a coordinated MOQ delivery path. The demonstration shows how a relay function operating in our network can coordinate with Oracle’s OCI relay network to help deliver streaming content to subscribers.
The important word here is “coordinate.” Netskrt remains an independently operated CDN, while its infrastructure can become part of a larger federated delivery path.
Seamless, real-time delivery of live-streaming events is a complicated business. Major content platforms routinely depend on multiple CDNs and other network relationships because no single provider is perfectly positioned for every viewer, geography, and traffic event.
MOQ creates the possibility of making that distributed world more interoperable. A common transport and relay model can allow separate infrastructures to participate in the same delivery path, with content moving through relay capacity positioned closer to the audience. For live events in particular, that could mean additional capacity where demand is highest, shorter delivery paths, and more flexibility to respond as network conditions change.
MOQ is still an emerging standard, and important work remains around specifications, interoperability, deployment models, and broad commercial adoption. But the conversation has clearly moved beyond theory. Netskrt and Oracle are working together, today, to show how coordinated relay infrastructure can work in practice.
For Netskrt, that is the larger opportunity behind MOQ. The next generation of streaming infrastructure will be shaped by networks that can cooperate as effectively as they scale. At IBC 2026, we’ll be joining Oracle to discuss that future and demonstrate the important steps we’re taking toward making it possible.