Re: NDAA passed: Internet and Online Streaming Services Emergency Alert Study

[Michael Thomas <mike () mtcc com>]

On 1/3/21 2:01 PM, Andy Brezinsky wrote:
> At this point I would assume that nearly every device is persisting at 
> least one long lived TCP connection.  Whether it's for telemetry or 
> command and control, everything these days seems to have this 
> capability.  As an example, I can hit a button in the Nintendo Switch 
> parent app on my phone and my kid's Switch is reflecting changes a 
> second later.  That's not even a platform I would have expected to 
> have that capability.
>
> If they have an existing connection then there lots of high connection 
> count solutions in the IOT space that could easily handle this number 
> of connections.  A single 12c 32G box running emqttd could handle 1.3M 
> connections.  Just picking a random AWS EC2 size machine, m5.4xlarge, 
> would run you about $0.003/year per device to keep that connection 
> open and passing data.  I assume you could drive that down 
> significantly from there.
These days I would expect that just about everything has a websocket. I 
expect that google docs inspired a generation of applications.

Mike