Fastly Announces HTTP/3 and QUIC Support to Improve Global Internet Performance
April 30 2020 - 1:23PM
Business Wire
HTTP/3 and QUIC are primed to speed up internet
response times, set the standard for built-in encryption, and
enable greater accessibility worldwide
Fastly, Inc. (NYSE: FSLY), provider of a global edge cloud
platform, today announced support for HTTP/3 and QUIC — the web’s
newest protocols, built to power the modern internet. HTTP/3 and
QUIC are primed to modernize the internet in a number of ways:
faster response times, greater accessibility worldwide, and setting
the standard for built-in encryption, just to name a few.
As the world becomes increasingly web-reliant, the demand for a
more secure and dependable internet increases, driving the need to
find better performing and more secure alternatives to the
incumbent HTTP/2 and TCP protocols. HTTP/3 is the newest evolution
of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, and QUIC is the
always-encrypted transport protocol underneath it. Through HTTP/3
and QUIC, Fastly customers can provide a better digital experience
for their end users, ensuring confidential and secure
connections.
“Now more than ever before, the internet has become an essential
part of our lives, making lower-than-average internet performance
an even greater systematic disadvantage for our end users,”
explained Jana Iyengar, Distinguished Engineer at Fastly, and an
editor in the IETF's QUIC working group. “QUIC has the potential to
not only provide safer digital experiences, but faster and more
efficient ones. We believe that QUIC will be a game changer for
people all over the world, especially for users who aren't
well-served by the current internet.”
Fastly’s support for these new standards allows delivery of even
better and faster digital experiences to its global customers.
Fastly’s QUIC support provides:
- Faster web pages: HTTP/3 and QUIC minimize head-of-line
blocking and reduce handshake latency, significantly reducing page
load time.
- Better streaming: In addition, QUIC also improves
network performance overall, significantly reducing start-up time
and rebuffering of video and audio streams.
- Turn-key security: TLS 1.3 — the latest version of the
Transport Layer Security protocol — is built directly into QUIC and
secures headers and metadata from third parties, allowing more
private, trustworthy connections than ever before.
- Seamless integration: Because QUIC runs in userspace, it
integrates seamlessly with Fastly’s tooling, tracing, and logging
infrastructure, making it easier for Fastly developers to run
experiments and initiate rapid deployment and evolution of sites
and apps.
To learn more about Fastly’s beta program and implementation of
HTTP/3 and QUIC, visit:
https://www.fastly.com/blog/modernizing-the-internet-with-http3-and-quic
and email quic-beta@fastly.com.
About Fastly
Fastly helps people stay better connected with the things they
love. Fastly’s edge cloud platform enables customers to create
great digital experiences quickly, securely, and reliably by
processing, serving, and securing our customers’ applications as
close to their end-users as possible — at the edge of the internet.
The platform is designed to take advantage of the modern internet,
to be programmable, and to support agile software development.
Fastly’s customers use our edge cloud platform to ensure
concertgoers can buy tickets to the live events they love,
travelers can book flights seamlessly and embark on their next
great adventure, and sports fans can stream events in real time,
across devices. They include many of the world’s most prominent
companies, including Alaska Airlines, The New York Times, and
GitHub.
Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains “forward-looking” statements that
are based on Fastly’s beliefs and assumptions and on information
currently available to Fastly on the date of this press release.
Forward-looking statements may involve known and unknown risks,
uncertainties, and other factors that may cause its actual results,
performance, or achievements to be materially different from those
expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. These
statements include, but are not limited to, those regarding the
ability of Fastly customers to provide a better digital experience
for their end users and to ensure confidential and secure
connections through HTTP/3 and QUIC, the ability of QUIC to provide
safer, better, and faster digital experiences, and the expected
impact and reach of QUIC generally. Except as required by law,
Fastly assumes no obligation to update these forward-looking
statements publicly, or to update the reasons actual results could
differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking
statements, even if new information becomes available in the
future. Important factors that could cause Fastly’s actual results
to differ materially are detailed from time to time in the reports
Fastly files with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC),
including in its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended
December 31, 2019. Copies of reports filed with the SEC are posted
on Fastly’s website and are available from Fastly without
charge.
Source: Fastly, Inc.
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