QUIC Protocol
Taking a performance leap with Visuality Systems’ SMB over QUIC
Visuality Systems’ YNQ and jNQ solutions are also available over QUIC, significantly increasing overall connectivity performance, enhancing security, and discarding the need of connecting via VPN. Visuality Systems’ SMB solutions for embedded products, storage systems, and Java environments, operate over any OS such as Linux, Android, IOS and more.
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What is QUIC and why is it better?
For decades TCP has been the standard transmission control protocol, until Google’s QUIC protocol disrupted the structured TCP concept, basing it over UDP and adding application level features for enhancing connectivity and security.
Running over UDP reduces latency using a single handshake for establishing the network connection.
Authenticated by TLS 1.3, all packets throughout the connection are encrypted, thus SMB over QUIC acts like a built-in VPN.
A packet header mechanism ensures recovery in case of high loss-rate, and packets requiring a reliable delivery are re-sent.
QUIC assigns its own ID regardless of IPs and ports, allowing it to seamlessly switch between cellular, WI-FI, and wired networks, or upon any IP or port change.
A single session holds simultaneous data streams, avoiding head-of-line blocking, given UDP isn’t bound to order.
A session ticket allows reconnecting faster to previously visited servers.
No need for VPN!
The QUIC protocol replaces the need for connecting via VPN, making connections to remote servers and branch networking faster, simpler and more efficient. All packets throughout the connection are encrypted, and the handshake is authenticated with TLS 1.3, which is faster, more secure, and discards the need of multiple handshakes for establishing a network connection. The QUIC protocol creates an encrypted connection over a standard TLS port 443 instead of the legacy TCP port 445, providing full security and acting like a built-in VPN.
Highly scalable and portable SMB over QUIC
SMB over QUIC provides higher performance connectivity to file servers, with a built-in encryption on the transport layer for enhanced security, enabling copying, moving, and modifying terabytes of user data, and discarding the need of connecting via VPN, from the internet to Azure, to on-prem entities, and more.
Configuring SMB over QUIC is very simple. QUIC is supported from Windows Server 2022 and Windows 11, having full compatibility with existing features, thus all SMB features such as signing and encryption continue working as usual.
Highly scalable and portable SMB over QUIC
SMB over QUIC provides higher performance connectivity to file servers, with a built-in encryption on the transport layer for enhanced security, enabling copying, moving, and modifying terabytes of user data, and discarding the need of connecting via VPN, from the internet to Azure, to on-prem entities, and more.
Configuring SMB over QUIC is very simple. QUIC is supported from Windows Server 2022 and Windows 11, having full compatibility with existing features, thus all SMB features such as signing and encryption continue working as usual.
Visuality Systems & QUIC
Bringing SMB over QUIC client functionality to the IOT world
Visuality Systems’ QUIC solutions extend SMB functionality, enabling products and applications to communicate more efficiently with any SMB over QUIC supported server. Visuality Systems operates within the global SMB market since 1998, providing fully supported and widely tested advanced solutions.
Our close relationship and ongoing cooperation with Microsoft allow us to be continuously in sync, and prepare ahead of time for any new software update. We implement updates in parallel to Windows, keeping our customers up-to-date, and providing a well maintained Microsoft-licensed solution.
What sets Visuality Systems apart?
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