Shipping Media Over QUIC at Meta Scale for Instagram Live Ingest

What happened

Meta has begun deploying Media over QUIC (MoQ), an emerging open protocol for real-time video streaming at scale. The post Shipping Media Over QUIC at Meta Scale for Instagram Live Ingest appeared first on Engineering at Meta .

This work was also presented at DEMOQED 2026 . Instagram Live now operates with the open standard transport protocol Media over QUIC (MoQ) for live video ingest on iOS and Android.

It also gives teams across Meta a common foundation for bringing those improvements to future live and interactive experiences without rebuilding them on separate protocol stacks. MoQ: A Media Protocol for Every Moment in Time The internet has accumulated a rich set of media protocols, each shaped by the problem in front of it.

Key facts

• Instagram Live now — uses: the open standard transport protocol Media over QUIC (MoQ) for live video ingest on iOS and Android