# How many simultaneous TCP (and/or TLS) connections does XBee Cellular support?

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**Category:** XBee - Cellular\
**Tags:** xbee-cellular\
**Created:** [March 31, 2017, 1:46pm UTC](https://forums.digi.com/t/how-many-simultaneous-tcp-and-or-tls-connections-does-xbee-cellular-support/18203 "2017-03-31T13:46:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![garyk111](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ee7513/32.png) [@garyk111](https://forums.digi.com/u/garyk111)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2017, 1:46pm UTC](https://forums.digi.com/t/how-many-simultaneous-tcp-and-or-tls-connections-does-xbee-cellular-support/18203/1 "2017-03-31T13:46:10Z")

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When using the frames based XBee API with XBee Cellular, how many simultaneous TCP and/or TLS connections are supported?

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**Author:** ![DigiGuy42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/59ef9b/32.png) [@DigiGuy42](https://forums.digi.com/u/DigiGuy42)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2017, 3:07pm UTC](https://forums.digi.com/t/how-many-simultaneous-tcp-and-or-tls-connections-does-xbee-cellular-support/18203/2 "2017-03-31T15:07:05Z")

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Gary, in the default configuration you can have 4 regular TCP connections and 1 TLS connection. You can get an additional TCP connection by disabling the Device Cloud connection for a maximum of 5.