PowerWebSockets Features

• Truly Bi-directional - Create WebSocket servers and clients that can send text and binary data whenever they like to other WebSocket clients or servers over single-TCP, full-duplex channels.
• High Performance - Its asynchronous design, adaptive resource management and transport compression provide high responsiveness, low memory use and minimal bandwidth consumption.
• High Throughput Mechanisms - The Push-to-All and Transparent Burst Messaging mechanisms help you create your own messaging system capable of pushing millions of messages per second.
• Lightweight JSON Messaging - JSON's format simplicity and WebSocket's communication advantages are combined in a powerful communication framework for building real-time apps and services.
• Common API at Both Ends - With PowerWebSockets there is little distinction between clients and servers. Channels provide the same functionality at both ends and services can act both as servers and as clients.
• Streaming for Big Data - The WebSocket API of PowerWebSockets represents each inbound or outbound message as a .NET stream, allowing you to efficiently transfer messages of arbitrary size.
• Easy TLS Security - Activate TLS just by switching from "ws:" to "wss:" and providing a certificate. You can perform TLS authentication of servers and clients as well as HTTP basic authentication.
• Internet of Things - Ready for the Internet of Things? With the extended capabilities of PowerWebSockets, you can create servers even out of iOS, Android and Compact Framework devices.
• Interoperable With All - Interoperable with all WebSocket servers, desktops, devices and browsers including IE, FF, Chrome, Opera, Safari, IIS, Apache, Nginx and many more.
• More Features - The advanced keep-alive mechanism helps you to ensure that connections remain alive, while its tracing support enables you to trace your applications locally or remotely.
• WCF Transport - WCF we still love you! A WebSocket transport binding element for WCF with near-universal availability, higher performance and support for ultra-fast compression is included.
• Cross Platform - You can use PowerWebSockets in projects targeting .NET Framework, .NET Compact Framework, Xamarin.iOS, Xamarin.Android, Xamarin.Mac, Windows Phone, Silverlight and Mono.