# Meta — Shipping Media Over QUIC at Meta Scale for Instagram Live Ingest

- Company: Meta (meta.com)
- Announced: 2026-10-12T16:01:32+00:00
- Category: capability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://engineering.fb.com/2026/10/12/video-engineering/shipping-media-over-quic-at-meta-scale-for-instagram-live-ingest/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/19915-shipping-media-over-quic-at-meta-scale-for-instagram-live-ingest
- Subject: Llama / infrastructure

Meta has begun deploying Media over QUIC (MoQ), an emerging open protocol for real-time video streaming, for Instagram Live ingest on iOS and Android. MoQ is designed to simplify Meta's protocol stack for live streaming and improve latency and resilience. The deployment replaces Meta's in-house RUSH protocol and is the first large-scale use of MoQ at Meta.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://engineering.fb.com/2026/10/12/video-engineering/shipping-media-over-quic-at-meta-scale-for-instagram-live-ingest/:

> Instagram Live now uses the open standard transport protocol Media over QUIC (MoQ) for live video ingest on iOS and Android.

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