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Fastly Announces HTTP/3 and QUIC Support to Improve Global Internet Performance
HTTP/3 and QUIC are primed to speed up internet response times, set the standard for built-in encryption, and enable greater accessibility worldwide SAN
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nHTTP/3 and QUIC are primed to speed up internet response times, set the standard for built-in encryption, and enable greater accessibility worldwide\n\n SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nFastly, 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.\n\n\nAs 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.\n\n\n“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.”\n\n\nFastly’s support for these new standards allows delivery of even better and faster digital experiences to its global customers. Fastly’s QUIC support provides:\n\n\n\nFaster web pages: HTTP/3 and QUIC minimize head-of-line blocking and reduce handshake latency, significantly reducing page load time.\n\n\nBetter streaming: In addition, QUIC also improves network performance overall, significantly reducing start-up time and rebuffering of video and audio streams.\n\n\nTurn-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.\n\n\nSeamless integra...