Chrome testers to get faster speed with QUIC, an experimental network protocol.
Google, as is its wont, is always trying to make the World Wide Web go faster. To that end, Google in 2009 unveiled SPDY,
a networking protocol that reduces latency and is now being built into
HTTP 2.0. SPDY is now supported by Chrome, Firefox, Opera, and the
upcoming Internet Explorer 11.
But SPDY isn't enough. Yesterday, Google released a boatload of
information about its next protocol, one that could reshape how the Web
routes traffic. QUIC—standing for Quick UDP
Internet Connections—was created to reduce the number of round trips
data makes as it traverses the Internet in order to load stuff into your
browser.
Although it is still in its early stages, Google is going to start
testing the protocol on a "small percentage" of Chrome users who use the
development or canary versions of the browser—the experimental versions
that often contain features not stable enough for everyone. QUIC has
been built into these test versions of Chrome and into Google's servers.
The client and server implementations are open source, just as Chromium is.
"Users shouldn't notice any difference—except hopefully a faster load time," Google's Jim Roskind wrote in a blog post.
For the rest of the story: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/06/google-making-the-web-faster-with-protocol-that-reduces-round-trips/
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