What is Powow?

Powow is an open-source TCP packets exchange mesh.

It allows many TCP clients to connect to a "Powow cloud" (several instances of Powow), to exchange data.

Powow is a TCP socket (messaging) server like Palabre or Oregano. It allows for clustering, much like ActiveMQ. It is written in Python, or more precisely in Stackless Python, just like (parts of) Eve online, the famous game from CCP Games.

As soon as a client is connected to one of the Powow servers of the cloud, it can start exchanging packets of data with any other client connected somewhere on the cloud, without any knowledge of where / how (port) this other client is connected.

Powow also allows broadcasting packets to a group of clients, through the use of lobbies (much like common IRC lobbies).