Duplicate delivery
Everyone watches the same bits, but unicast streaming sends them user-by-user.
For mass events and live streaming
Stop sending the same stream millions of times.
QUICast combines multicast delivery with QUIC-era transport patterns: secure verification metadata and graceful unicast fallback when multicast is not available.
- Efficiency
- Network replication instead of per-viewer duplication
- Security
- Verification metadata over secure unicast channels
- Resilience
- Unicast fallback when multicast is unavailable
Problem
Live events still scale like every viewer is unique.
Infrastructure strain
Origins, CDNs, and backbones need expensive headroom for the exact moments demand peaks.
Delay spread
Viewer-to-viewer latency grows when every connection has its own delivery path.
Solution
Multicast efficiency with modern verification and fallback.
One-to-many media
Send common live media once and let the network replicate packets efficiently.
Secure control
Keep verification, integrity, and operational metadata on authenticated unicast paths.
Hybrid deployment
Use multicast where available and keep a normal unicast path for incompatible networks.
Live demo
Try the public player.
The live demo shows QUICast's browser delivery path in action. It starts playback when the browser and network support the required secure transport APIs, and explains what to change when they do not.
Status
Research path, demo path, operating path.
Current state
QUIC multicast extensions exist today, but production hardening still needs pilots.
What is needed
Robust clients, operational tooling, and real-world operator or ISP experiments.
Next steps
Pilots focused on measurable bandwidth savings and better live-event synchronization.
Contact
Technical briefing or pilot discussion
Reach out for integration paths, pilots, or a deeper architecture walk-through.