MoQ Dev Sandbox
All-in-one Media over QUIC sandbox: relay, pre-rolled stream, and web player on boot.
MoQ Dev Sandbox is a batteries-included Media over QUIC (MoQ) playground in a single VM. It bundles the reference MoQ relay, a publisher that pushes a pre-rolled test stream, and a web player/console, so a stream is already flowing the moment the box boots. Open the web UI and you immediately see MoQ working end to end, then point your own publishers and subscribers at the co-located relay to build against.
Media over QUIC is an emerging IETF live-media transport that carries sub-second live video and audio over QUIC / WebTransport, combining WebRTC-class latency with CDN-class scale in one architecture.
Key features
- Relay + publisher + web player bundled in one box (no assembly required)
- A pre-rolled test stream is live on boot; open the player and watch it instantly
- Co-located reference relay (kixelated/moq-relay) to point your own MoQ tools at
- Self-signed certificate generated at first boot; the whole pub->relay->player loopback is local, so the sandbox is self-contained and needs no domain
- The certificate fingerprint and the live broadcast list are served on the relay port, so a browser player pins the cert and connects to the local relay
- Open demo sandbox: no login, nothing to configure
Use cases
- Developers exploring MoQ end to end for the first time
- Building and testing a MoQ publisher or player against a working relay
- A disposable, self-contained MoQ test stack in a PoP near you
Why run it on the NetActuate edge MoQ's whole value is low latency at scale via relays placed close to the audience. Standing the sandbox up in a NetActuate PoP lets you experiment with MoQ on the same kind of edge footprint a production anycast relay mesh would use.
Deployed from the NetActuate marketplace, the sandbox boots pre-configured: it generates its TLS certificate, starts the relay, begins publishing the pre-rolled stream, and serves the player only after a self-check confirms the stream is flowing. The MoQ media transport is QUIC over UDP, so the deploy network must allow UDP passthrough to the relay port. For real cross-machine browser playback, front the relay with a real domain and TLS certificate (WebTransport rejects an untrusted cert unless the fingerprint is pinned, as the bundled local player does).
Frequently asked questions
How do I deploy MoQ Dev Sandbox on NetActuate?
Use the Deploy on NetActuate button to talk to our team. We provision MoQ Dev Sandbox on a NetActuate virtual machine in the point of presence you choose, close to your audience. Each deployment runs in the single location you select.
What does it cost to run MoQ Dev Sandbox?
MoQ Dev Sandbox is open-source software and free to run on the marketplace - you pay only for the NetActuate compute (virtual-machine size and location) it runs on, at standard rates. There are no usage-based software fees.
Where can MoQ Dev Sandbox run?
MoQ Dev Sandbox can be deployed in any of NetActuate's 45+ points of presence across every continent, so you can place ingest, transcode, delivery and caching close to your contributors and viewers.
Who supports MoQ Dev Sandbox?
NetActuate operates and supports the underlying infrastructure - the virtual machine, network and edge platform. The application itself is supported by its upstream open-source project.
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