We once had to pronounce a company product dead-on-arrival due to a naive UDP based cellular product, and regrettably had to pass on the mission difficult. Th

We once had to pronounce a company product dead-on-arrival due to a naive UDP based cellular product, and regrettably had to pass on the mission difficult. The problem wasn't the lousy data link (Iodine tunnels exist), but rather the ridiculous scaling-cost server side. Think about a large fleet of vehicles all trying to report at the same time. Sure one could rate-limit the bandwidth... but then the link throughput is even more probabilistic. =) Sometimes it is better to run... rather than walk from Doomed projects. The contract-manufacturer ended up with a warehouse of products no one could fix. All thanks to some under-powered-module manufacturers naive understanding of networks. Its a shame really, the people were good folks with a viable business plan. I have a bag of popcorn ready for the idealists rolling out HTTP/3 with QUIC into their data-centers and NOC. I remain skeptical most infrastructure can survive the traffic asymmetry reliably at scale. Hard pass for now... Have a wonderful day, and remember to have fun =)