Product Information
What is Pubnub?
Pubnub is the world's only global real-time network. It empowers software developers to rapidly build and scale real-time applications by delivering the critical building blocks of cloud infrastructure, connectivity, and real-time interaction. Developers can create real-time apps for any device, such as live dashboards and data streams, real-time collaboration, second-screen synchronization, and machine-to-machine signaling. Pubnub utilizes a publish/subscribe model for real-time data streaming and device signaling, and supports all functionalities of WebSockets, Socket.IO, SignalIR, WebRTC data channels, and other streaming protocols.
With Pubnub, developers can significantly reduce the cost, complexity, and time required to deliver real-time experiences. Pubnub powers 1,000 applications and delivers over 3 million messages monthly to more than 100 million devices. Clients include Rebtel, Viggle, GetTaxi, Humble Bundle, StageIT, Spreecast, Celly, and more.
**Easy to Use**:
A straightforward API allows developers to build real-time applications for mobile devices, browsers, desktops, and servers within minutes.
**Essential Real-Time Building Blocks**:
Pubnub provides everything needed to construct and scale real-time apps, including data push, presence, storage, mobile solutions, analytics, security, and more.
**Universal Support**:
Pubnub offers over 50 SDKs for the most popular environments, including iOS, Android, JavaScript, .NET, Java, Ruby, Python, PHP, and others.
**Global Scale**:
Pubnub connects everyone on the planet in under 1/4 second, backed by 11 data centers and a 99.999% uptime SLA.
**Specialties**:
Real-time applications, live data push, presence, storage and replay, mobile, analytics, and security.
How to use Pubnub?
PubNub is a global real-time network providing cloud infrastructure, connectivity, and key building blocks for software developers to quickly build and scale real-time applications. It powers real-time interactive experiences via a pub/sub network, aiming to reduce development cost, complexity, and time.
Core Functions of Pubnub
Sync to Google Calendar
In-game overlays
Real-time push notifications
Discovery Engine
Backend
Data Streaming
Usage Scenarios of Pubnub
- Build real-time dashboards and data streams
- Enable real-time collaboration
- Achieve second-screen synchronization
- Facilitate machine-to-machine signal transmission
- Provide chat experiences
- Control IoT devices
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