Company feels its UDP-based QUIC network protocol is almost ready for prime time
Over the last quarter, Google has been busy stress-testing its QUIC (Quick UDP Internet Connections) network protocol, subjecting it to an ever increasing amount of traffic. At the moment, “roughly half of all requests from Chrome to Google servers” are being sent over QUIC. The results, the company says, are heartening and point to a tangible performance improvement over …read more
