diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 1eeceb10..2df98f07 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@
     "sprintf-js": "^1.0.3",
     "toml": "^2.3.0",
     "uuid": "^3.2.1",
+    "uws": "^10.148.0",
     "yamljs": "^0.2.8"
   },
   "scripts": {
diff --git a/src/channel/channel.js b/src/channel/channel.js
index e0f4071d..77cf7a89 100644
--- a/src/channel/channel.js
+++ b/src/channel/channel.js
@@ -725,6 +725,7 @@ Channel.prototype.handleReadLog = function (user) {
 
 Channel.prototype.broadcastToRoom = function (msg, data, ns) {
     sio.instance.in(ns).emit(msg, data);
+    require('../io/uws').in(ns).emit(msg, data);
 };
 
 Channel.prototype.broadcastAll = function (msg, data) {
diff --git a/src/io/uws.js b/src/io/uws.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b4c85eee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/io/uws.js
@@ -0,0 +1,106 @@
+import { EventEmitter } from 'events';
+import { Multimap } from '../util/multimap';
+import User from '../user';
+
+const rooms = new Multimap();
+
+class UWSWrapper extends EventEmitter {
+    constructor(socket, context) {
+        super();
+
+        this._uwsSocket = socket;
+        this._joined = new Set();
+        this._connected = true;
+        this.context = context;
+
+        this._uwsSocket.on('message', message => {
+            this._emit.apply(this, this._decode(message));
+        });
+
+        this._uwsSocket.on('close', () => {
+            this._connected = false;
+
+            for (let room of this._joined) {
+                rooms.delete(room, this);
+            }
+
+            this._joined.clear();
+            this._emit('disconnect');
+        });
+    }
+
+    disconnect() {
+        this._uwsSocket.terminate();
+    }
+
+    get disconnected() {
+        return !this._connected;
+    }
+
+    emit(frame, ...args) {
+        this._uwsSocket.send(encode(frame, args));
+    }
+
+    join(room) {
+        this._joined.add(room);
+        rooms.set(room, this);
+    }
+
+    leave(room) {
+        this._joined.delete(room);
+        rooms.delete(room, this);
+    }
+
+    typecheckedOn(frame, typeDef, cb) {
+        this.on(frame, cb);
+    }
+
+    typecheckedOnce(frame, typeDef, cb) {
+        this.once(frame, cb);
+    }
+
+    _decode(message) {
+        // TODO: handle error and kill clients with protocol violations
+        return JSON.parse(message);
+    }
+}
+
+Object.assign(UWSWrapper.prototype, { _emit: EventEmitter.prototype.emit });
+
+function encode(frame, args) {
+    return JSON.stringify([frame].concat(args));
+}
+
+function inRoom(room) {
+    return {
+        emit(frame, ...args) {
+            const encoded = encode(frame, args);
+
+            for (let wrapper of rooms.get(room)) {
+                wrapper._uwsSocket.send(encoded);
+            }
+        }
+    };
+}
+
+export { UWSWrapper };
+exports['in'] = inRoom;
+
+export function init() {
+    const uws = require('uws');
+
+    const server = new uws.Server({ port: 3000 });
+
+    server.on('connection', socket => {
+        const wrap = new UWSWrapper(
+            socket,
+            {
+                aliases: [],
+                ipSessionFirstSeen: new Date(),
+                torConnection: false,
+                ipAddress: null
+            }
+        );
+        new User(wrap, '127.0.0.1', null);
+    });
+}
diff --git a/src/server.js b/src/server.js
index 1ed26111..ba256ed8 100644
--- a/src/server.js
+++ b/src/server.js
@@ -190,6 +190,7 @@ var Server = function () {
     });
 
     require("./io/ioserver").init(self, webConfig);
+    require("./io/uws").init();
 
     // background tasks init ----------------------------------------------
     require("./bgtask")(self);
diff --git a/src/util/multimap.js b/src/util/multimap.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3fcb0336
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/util/multimap.js
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+class Multimap {
+    constructor() {
+        this._items = new Map();
+    }
+
+    get(key) {
+        if (this._items.has(key)) {
+            return this._items.get(key);
+        }
+
+        return new Set();
+    }
+
+    has(key, value) {
+        if (!this._items.has(key)) {
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        return this._items.get(key).has(value);
+    }
+
+    set(key, value) {
+        if (!this._items.has(key)) {
+            this._items.set(key, new Set());
+        }
+
+        return this._items.get(key).add(value);
+    }
+
+    delete(key, value) {
+        if (!this._items.has(key)) {
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        const res = this._items.get(key).delete(value);
+
+        if (this._items.get(key).size == 0) {
+            this._items.delete(key);
+        }
+
+        return res;
+    }
+}
+
+export { Multimap };
diff --git a/test/util/multimap.js b/test/util/multimap.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..dc30eb4f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/util/multimap.js
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+const assert = require('assert');
+const { Multimap } = require('../../lib/util/multimap');
+
+describe('Multimap', () => {
+    let map;
+
+    beforeEach(() => {
+        map = new Multimap();
+    });
+
+    it('returns the empty set for an unset key', () => {
+        assert.deepEqual(map.get('unknown'), new Set());
+    });
+
+    it('returns a set of values for a given key', () => {
+        map.set('a', 1);
+        map.set('a', 2);
+        map.set('a', 1);
+
+        assert.deepEqual(map.get('a'), new Set([1, 2]));
+    });
+
+    it('deletes a value for a given key', () => {
+        map.set('a', 1);
+        map.set('a', 2);
+        map.delete('a', 1);
+
+        assert.deepEqual(map.get('a'), new Set([2]));
+
+        map.delete('a', 2);
+
+        assert.deepEqual(map.get('a'), new Set());
+    });
+});