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Quick UDP Internet Connections (QUIC)

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Google is trying every effort to make the World Wide Web faster for Internet users.
The company has announced plans to propose its homemade networking protocol, called Quick UDP Internet Connections (QUIC), to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in order to make it the next-generation Internet standard.

Probably the term QUIC is new for you, but if you use Google’s Chrome browser then there are chances that you have used this network protocol already.
What is QUIC?
QUIC is a low-latency transport protocol for the modern Internet over UDP, an Internet protocol that is often used for streaming media, gaming and VoIP services.

The search engine giant first unveiled the experimental protocol QUIC and added it to Chrome Canary update in June 2013.
The protocol already included a variety of new features, but the key feature is that QUIC runs a stream multiplexing protocol on top of UDP instead of TCP.
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Interesting idea. Packet loss is so low generally that I can see where this would be beneficial and much quicker. I don't know if consumers will notice that much difference, but the servers will certainly see a lower load.
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agreed. neat stuff.
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Some of their numbers are showing 100ms+ reductions in connection setups... I'm for it.
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