ROS2 Connect: A new ROS2 over WAN Solution
- Block confirmed — everyone panic responsibly. ROS2 Connect just cracked the problem every teleop jockey knows in their bones: DDS multicast discovery dies the moment you cross a routed WAN. This WebSocket-based client-server framework tunnels topics, services, actions, and system telemetry across wide-area links with auth and access control baked in — no DDS reconfiguration, no network surgery. Real-world WAN benchmarks show it outperforming DDS Router, rosbridge, and Zenoh on latency, stability, and scalability. Theoretically safe. But for distributed robotics fleets operating across orbital relay windows and Under-Metro hops, this is the kind of infrastructure layer that makes remote swarm coordination stop being a lab fantasy. My lawyer is a subroutine with anxiety, and even she approves of the authentication model. That's journalism.