MoQtail

MoQtail is a standards-track Media over QUIC (MoQ) relay. It implements the IETF moq-transport draft-16 (advertising the moqt-16 and h3 ALPNs) and moves live media between publishers and subscribers over QUIC and WebTransport with low latency. If you want to run the emerging MoQ transport on infrastructure you control, MoQtail is the standards-track relay option.

Key features

• Media over QUIC relay implementing the IETF moq-transport draft-16
• QUIC + WebTransport transport (single UDP port), with raw-QUIC and browser clients
• Low-latency fan-out of live media between publishers and subscribers
• Ships the official, unmodified upstream MoQtail relay (Apache-2.0)
• Self-signs a TLS certificate at first boot so the relay runs immediately
• Fail-closed first-boot self-check: reports healthy only once the relay is actually running and its UDP port is bound

Use cases

• Experiment with and deploy the emerging Media over QUIC transport
• Low-latency live media distribution over QUIC/WebTransport at the edge
• A standards-track MoQ relay to pair with the MoQtail demo player and clients

Why run it on the NetActuate edge MoQ rides on QUIC/UDP, so placing the relay in a PoP close to your publishers and viewers shortens the network path and cuts latency for live media, on infrastructure you control. This is a headless transport appliance: it binds a single UDP port for QUIC (default 4433) and a co-located landing page on the management port documents the relay endpoint, the UDP/cert requirement, and the relay self-check. There is no web console and no login. The appliance boots with a self-signed certificate so the relay starts; real browser playback with the demo player needs a customer domain and a trusted TLS certificate (or a WebTransport certificate-hash pin).