An upgrade to the core of the public Internet proposed by Google nearly a decade ago was finally given the green light, paving the way for significant improvements in speed and security. The organization responsible for setting Internet standards, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), has announced that the QUIC data transmission protocol has reached a level of maturity sufficient to replace the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). current, which began in XNUMX. Now approved as an official Internet standard, QUIC can be used by anyone developing an online service and will be particularly useful in contexts where speed is of the essence.
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QUIC was first introduced in XNUMX as an update to Chrome that improved the speed at which data was transferred from the browser to the company's servers. After that, the protocol was tested in many different contexts and applications, before being submitted to the IETF for review in XNUMX. Like TCP, QUIC's job is to dictate how information is broken up into chunks, transmitted over the Internet, and then reformatted at its destination. In contrast to its predecessor, QUIC is based on the considerably faster User Datagram Protocol (UDP) and has a superior mechanism for recovering data that may have been lost along the way. In a XNUMX article, Google claimed that QUIC can improve search query loading speeds by XNUMX% on desktop and reduce YouTube buffering times by up to XNUMX% (and these numbers can be even more incredible today). Sites and services that use encrypted connections should also benefit from a particularly large speed boost. However, migrating from TCP to QUIC is not going to be an easy task, with a number of existing services built around the old protocol. For this reason, it is not very likely that an essential and also immediate change will be generated. Instead, market players are expected to slowly start adopting the new standard, starting with the carriers whose services will experience the most traffic performance gains. Via CNET