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What is QUIC?

QUIC (Quick UDP Internet Connections) is a network transport protocol developed by Google. It is designed to provide a more reliable and secure connection than TCP, especially in lossy network environments. QUIC uses UDP as its underlying transport protocol and incorporates features such as multiplexing, forward error correction, and encryption to improve performance and security for web traffic. It is commonly used for HTTP/3, replacing TCP as the transport layer for HTTP.

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What other technologies are related to QUIC?

QUIC Competitor Technologies

TCP

TCP provides reliable, ordered delivery like QUIC, but QUIC aims to improve upon TCP's performance, especially in lossy networks.

mentioned alongside QUIC in 1% (213) of relevant job posts

IPSEC

IPSEC provides secure communication at the network layer, offering an alternative approach to securing communications compared to QUIC's transport-layer approach.

mentioned alongside QUIC in 0% (93) of relevant job posts

HTTPS

HTTPS, traditionally implemented over TCP+TLS, achieves secure communication. QUIC aims to replace TCP+TLS, thereby becoming a direct competitor to the traditional HTTPS stack.

mentioned alongside QUIC in 0% (65) of relevant job posts

VPN

VPNs provide secure tunnels for network traffic, often used for privacy and security. QUIC also offers built-in encryption, making them potentially competing solutions depending on the specific requirements.

mentioned alongside QUIC in 0% (55) of relevant job posts

QUIC Complementary Technologies

UDP

QUIC is built on top of UDP. UDP provides the basic transport mechanism for QUIC packets.

mentioned alongside QUIC in 1% (226) of relevant job posts

TLS

QUIC incorporates TLS 1.3 for encryption and authentication, which is a key part of the protocol. QUIC effectively replaces TCP+TLS+HTTP/2 stack with UDP+QUIC.

mentioned alongside QUIC in 1% (165) of relevant job posts