Have you heard about QUIC? Although initially proposed as the acronym for “Quick UDP Internet Connections,” IETF’s use of the word QUIC is not an acronym; it is merely the name of the protocol. QUIC is a new UDP-based transport protocol for the Internet, and specifically, the web. Originally designed and deployed by Google, it already makes up 35% of Google’s egress traffic, which corresponds to about 7% of all Internet traffic. Due to its ability to improve connection-oriented web application performance, it is gaining enthusiastic interest by many other large Internet players in the ongoing IETF standardization process, which is likely to lead to an even greater deployment. The SNIA Networking Storage Forum (NSF) is going to explore the potential impact of QUIC in our live webcast on April 2, 2020 “QUIC – Will it Replace TCP/IP?” In this session, Lars Eggert, Chair of the QUIC Working Group within IEFT, will discuss:

• Unique design aspects of QUIC
• Differences to the conventional HTTP/TLS/TCP web stack
• Early performance numbers
• Potential side effects of a broader deployment of QUIC

It should be an insightful overview of this interesting technology. Please register today to save your spot. We hope to see you on April 2nd.