Æthernet is designed as a ready-to-use cloud infrastructure service that acts as a secure transport layer, allowing developers to focus entirely on their application's business logic rather than building and maintaining backend systems

Here is a list of the complex engineering and operational tasks that Æthernet handles out-of-the-box, eliminating the need for you to develop them yourself:

• Infrastructure Maintenance and Scaling (Zero Ops)
• Device Onboarding and Registration
• Security and Cryptography
• Dynamic Routing and Failover
• Power and Energy Management
• Session Management in Unstable Networks
• Offline Message Buffering
• DDoS Protection and Abuse Prevention

1. Client Architecture and Resource Optimization

• Thick Client: On-device logic autonomously manages multi-transport switching and AP-specific power-saving (e.g., Wi-Fi DTIM, TWT) without relying on a central broker
• Object System and Distillation: Dev-time pre-serialization eliminates runtime constructors, enabling zero-allocation deserialization and a minimal <300 KB binary footprint
• Specialized Numeric Types: Custom types (TieredInt, Fixed, Exponent) deliver overflow-safe, zero-FPU arithmetic and logarithmic compression to drastically save RAM
• Zero-overhead Telemetry: Compile-time macros physically strip string identifiers, logging execution metrics with zero CPU overhead and minimal flash consumption

2. Network Protocol and Data Transmission

• Native Stateless Protocol: A handshake-free protocol embeds per-request cryptographic authentication, completely eliminating session states for high-loss networks
• Anti-Queue Paradigm: Stateless relays buffer E2E-encrypted payloads for a strict 10-second maximum, rejecting traditional stateful store-and-forward brokers
• Repeat Message Optimization: Recurring payloads use a secure 4-byte hash of the previous request, replacing easily spoofed TCP keep-alives and minimizing bandwidth

3. Cloud Architecture and Routing

• Personal Cloud and Hot Swapping: Clients dynamically balance traffic across a personalized, geo-distributed relay subset, executing millisecond-level hot-swapping upon latency spikes
• Two Cloud Environment and Lightweight Relays: Segregating registration nodes from stateless data planes enables cost-effective scaling and zero-downtime rolling updates

4. Security and Identity Management

• Self-Provisioning with Adaptive Proof-of-Work: Headless devices autonomously register via an adaptively scaled, MCU-friendly bcrypt challenge (4 KB RAM) to thwart Sybil attacks
• Zero-Trust Cryptography and Key Derivation: Local Master Keys utilize HKDF to derive ephemeral ChaCha20-Poly1305 keys per server, ensuring Perfect Forward Secrecy without vulnerable TLS certificates
• Hierarchical Management and Monetary Quotas: Routing and abuse mitigation are governed natively by a protocol-level parent-child tree using automated monetary quotas instead of REST APIs

OS and architecture support

• Compilers: C++17-compliant: GCC, LLVM, MSVC
• OS and CPU:
  • Windows (x86, x64)
  • macOS (x86_64)
  • Ubuntu/Debian (x86, x64, RISC-V)
  • Raspberry Pi OS (Pi 3, 5), Orange Pi OS (RISC-V)
  • OpenWrt (MIPS Linkit Smart 7688)
  • FreeBSD (x64)
  • Debian on IBM s390x
  • RHEL9 on IBM POWER
  • Solaris (x64)
  • QNX
• Toolchains: Arduino (ARM, Xtensa, RISC-V), ESP-IDF (Xtensa, RISC-V), MSBuild, Xcode, CMake (*nix-based, windows)

• Ethernet: Wired, full real-time, no credentials
• Wi-Fi: SSID+password, power saving (TWT Wi-Fi 6, DTIM)
• LAN: UDP/TCP direct, broadcast discovery, buffer-role for offline
• GSM: BG95, BG77, BG770, SIM7070A/SIM7000A, nRF9151; NB-IoT/LTE-M/2G
• Satellite - GSM NTN-IoT (Skylo)
• LoRa: SX1262 (client / gateway), SX1303 (gateway)
  1. Via LoRaWAN
  2. Through our own real-time protocol over LoRa
• BLE/Zigbee/Z-Wave: Via gateway
• 2.4 GHz proprietary protocol similar to BLE, but for real-time
• Iridium satellite: For extreme remote

• MCU: ESP32, Raspberry Pi, Orange Pi, STM32, Nordic (nRF9151), ARM ARM/Xtensa/RISC-V, MIPS Links Smart 7688
• Min requirements for C++:
  • RAM 30 KB
  • ROM 1 Kb bytes
  • Binary 300 KB (Windows)
• Wrappers:
  • C-interface (simplified API),
  • Objective-C
  • Swift
  • Java-JNI
  • WASM
• Ecosystems: CMake, Arduino Studio, VS Code+PlatformIO, Microsoft Visual Studio 2026

1. You can learn more about our technology on our website
2. To integrate our library into your project, follow our tutorials or the guidelines in the related repositories:

• C/C++
• Arduino (C/C++)
• Java
• TypeScript

3. For a deeper understanding of the platform and additional integration help, see our developer documentation