MoQ Relay

MoQ Relay is the reference relay for Media over QUIC (MoQ), an emerging IETF standard for live media transport, available in the NetActuate Marketplace as a one-click appliance. Instead of the classic segmented-HTTP stack (HLS/DASH) that trades latency for scale, MoQ carries live video and audio as prioritized streams over QUIC and WebTransport, reaching sub-second glass-to-glass latency while still fanning out to many viewers. This appliance runs the reference relay from the quic.video ecosystem: a headless Rust service that terminates WebTransport and QUIC on a UDP media port and relays broadcasts from publishers to subscribers. It is free and open source, and is grouped under the Media & Streaming category.

What It Does

MoQ Relay fans out live media over QUIC and WebTransport. Common uses include:

• Sub-second live video and audio delivery over QUIC and WebTransport
• Relaying broadcasts from publishers to many subscribers
• Experimenting with the emerging Media over QUIC (MoQ) transport
• Running a demo relay for the quic.video web tools and the MoQ CLI

Deploying the relay near your publishers and viewers keeps the low-latency QUIC path short.

Vendor and Project

MoQ Relay is an open-source project (Apache-2.0 and MIT). This appliance runs the official reference relay from the quic.video ecosystem.

• Source: github.com/kixelated/moq
• Web tools: quic.video

NetActuate supports the underlying infrastructure. Application-level support follows the listing's SLA class (open-source, best effort).

Sizing

	vCPU	RAM	Disk
Minimum	1	2 GB	20 GB
Recommended	2	4 GB	50 GB

No VPU (hardware acceleration) is required for this appliance.

Configuration Fields

When you deploy, you provide these fields. They are written into the appliance at first boot.

Field	Required	Default	Notes
MoQ media port (UDP)	No	443	The UDP port the relay listens on for MoQ and WebTransport (QUIC) media. The deploy network must allow UDP passthrough to this port
Management / landing port (TCP)	No	8080	TCP port for the co-located landing and instructions page. It returns HTTP 200 once the relay is up and shows the relay endpoint and certificate fingerprint
Announced hostname (optional)	No	instance IP	Optional FQDN you will point at this instance, used in the self-signed certificate SAN and shown as the relay endpoint. Browser playback needs a real domain and TLS certificate

Using the Appliance

After the build completes:

1. Confirm the relay is up by browsing to http://YOUR_VM_IP:8080/. The landing page returns HTTP 200 only after a first-boot self-check runs a real MoQ publish loopback against the relay, so a 200 confirms the QUIC and WebTransport dataplane is serving. It prints the relay endpoint and the certificate fingerprint.
2. Open the UDP media port. The relay speaks QUIC and WebTransport over UDP on port 443 by default. Make sure your network and firewall allow UDP passthrough to it; that is the endpoint publishers and players connect to.
3. Point clients at it. Use the open-source MoQ web tools at quic.video or the kixelated/moq CLI, pointed at https://YOUR_VM_IP:443.

Note: The relay boots with a self-signed certificate so it runs immediately, and publishes its sha256 fingerprint at http://YOUR_VM_IP:4443/certificate.sha256 for pinning. For real browser playback, set the announced hostname to a domain you control and front the relay with a trusted TLS certificate. The relay is an open demo relay with no authentication; put access control in front before exposing it broadly.

FAQ

Is there a software license fee? No. MoQ Relay is open source (Apache-2.0 and MIT). You pay only for the NetActuate infrastructure and bandwidth.

Why does the landing page matter? It returns HTTP 200 only after a first-boot self-check proves the relay's QUIC and WebTransport dataplane is serving, so a 200 is a real health signal.

Can browsers play from it directly? Only with a trusted certificate. The relay ships a self-signed certificate; set the announced hostname to a domain you control and front it with a real TLS certificate, or pin the published fingerprint.

Version and Changelog

Version	Status	Released
0.10.15	Current (default)	2026-07-14

Official kixelated/moq-relay 0.10.15 image (Apache-2.0 and MIT), built on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.

Deploy

• Deploy in the portal: Deploy MoQ Relay
• View the listing: portal.netactuate.com/platform/marketplace/l/moq-relay
• Public listing: netactuate.com/marketplace/moq-relay

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