Unicast (PubNub Pulse) is a service on the PubNub Real-Time Network that allows you to cost effectively keep persistent connections open to millions of devices, and push data to a device quickly any time you need to. Unicast (PubNub Pulse) automatically handles the various protocols, reconnects, data "catch-up" for dropped connections, load balancing, and all the other complexities involved with maintaining millions of connections so you don't have to.
Unicast (PubNub Pulse) allows you to add real-time capabilities to applications such as:
Keeping connections open from a device to the server can be costly. PubNub’s patent pending technology makes the most efficient use of server resources while keeping connections open and ready at all times.
All apps are not the same. Choose from a myriad of configurable features that give you complete control over your real-time app such as: Presence, Storage/Playback Service, Elastic Messages, Multi-Region, Real-time Analytics and more.
On mobile devices, PubNub makes efficient use of long-lived sockets and fast detection of connection dropouts to ensure connections are maintained without excessive battery drain.
Get immediate visibility into all connected devices, users, and how your connections are being used. PubNub provides graphs, charts, and real-time analytics to give you immediate insight into how your cluster of connected devices is performing.