Number of simultaneous connections limited?

[aa]

we've got a potential client that has a project requiring multiplayer game functionality. the problem is that they need to accomodate HUGE numbers of simultaneous connections (on the order of thousands).

from what i understand about flash comm server, it only allows a set number of connections. how would one go about allowing, say, 10,000 connections? can servers be piggy backed?

[psychlonex]

The only way I know of to increase the capacity is to add additional licences to the server. You can purchase blocks of 500 users. I believe you can spread these out amongst seperate machines and set up a cluster though I have no experience doing such a thing.

Hopefully that will get you going in the right direction.

Psx

[SubwayDesigns]

Does the client require it to be flashcomm? I'm not sure this is the right way to go... I can imagine a game using rtmp, but if you're talking 10'000+ simultaneous connections, I'd consider looking into something different.