diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 27969620..be9bf2ef 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
     "sanitize-html": "git://github.com/calzoneman/sanitize-html",
     "serve-static": "^1.10.0",
     "socket.io": "^1.3.7",
+    "socket.io-redis": "^1.0.0",
     "source-map-support": "^0.3.2",
     "status-message-polyfill": "calzoneman/status-message-polyfill",
     "yamljs": "^0.1.6"
diff --git a/src/io/backend/frontendmanager.js b/src/io/backend/frontendmanager.js
index 5bd465b3..1dcd83c0 100644
--- a/src/io/backend/frontendmanager.js
+++ b/src/io/backend/frontendmanager.js
@@ -1,20 +1,62 @@
+import ioServer from '../ioserver';
+import ProxiedSocket from './proxiedsocket';
+
 export default class FrontendManager {
-    constructor() {
+    constructor(socketEmitter) {
+        this.socketEmitter = socketEmitter;
         this.frontendConnections = {};
+        this.frontendProxiedSockets = {};
     }
 
     onConnection(socket) {
-        if (this.frontendConnections.hasOwnProperty(socket.remoteAddress)) {
+        if (this.frontendConnections.hasOwnProperty(socket.remoteAddressAndPort)) {
             // TODO: do some validation, maybe check if the socket is still connected?
             throw new Error();
         }
 
         this.frontendConnections[socket.remoteAddressAndPort] = socket;
-        console.log(socket.remoteAddressAndPort);
         socket.on('data', this.onData.bind(this, socket));
     }
 
     onData(socket, data) {
-        console.log(data);
+        switch (data.$type) {
+            case 'socketConnect':
+                this.onSocketConnect(socket, data);
+                break;
+            case 'socketFrame':
+                this.onSocketFrame(socket, data);
+                break;
+        }
+    }
+
+    onSocketConnect(frontendConnection, data) {
+        const mapKey = frontendConnection.remoteAddressAndPort;
+        const proxiedSocket = new ProxiedSocket(
+                data.socketID,
+                data.socketData,
+                this.socketEmitter,
+                frontendConnection);
+
+        if (!this.frontendProxiedSockets.hasOwnProperty(mapKey)) {
+            this.frontendProxiedSockets[mapKey] = {};
+        } else if (this.frontendProxiedSockets[mapKey].hasOwnProperty(data.socketID)) {
+            // TODO: Handle this gracefully
+            throw new Error();
+        }
+
+        this.frontendProxiedSockets[mapKey][data.socketID] = proxiedSocket;
+        ioServer.handleConnection(proxiedSocket);
+    }
+
+    onSocketFrame(frontendConnection, data) {
+        const mapKey = frontendConnection.remoteAddressAndPort;
+        const socketMap = this.frontendProxiedSockets[mapKey];
+        if (!socketMap || !socketMap.hasOwnProperty(data.socketID)) {
+            // TODO
+            throw new Error();
+        }
+
+        const socket = socketMap[data.socketID];
+        socket.onProxiedEventReceived.apply(socket, [data.event].concat(data.args));
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/io/backend/iobackend.js b/src/io/backend/iobackend.js
index e0c8d78d..9d0de5c2 100644
--- a/src/io/backend/iobackend.js
+++ b/src/io/backend/iobackend.js
@@ -2,14 +2,15 @@ import Server from 'cytube-common/lib/tcpjson/server';
 import FrontendManager from './frontendmanager';
 
 export default class IOBackend {
-    constructor(proxyListenerConfig) {
+    constructor(proxyListenerConfig, socketEmitter) {
         this.proxyListenerConfig = proxyListenerConfig;
+        this.socketEmitter = socketEmitter;
         this.initFrontendManager();
         this.initProxyListener();
     }
 
     initFrontendManager() {
-        this.frontendManager = new FrontendManager();
+        this.frontendManager = new FrontendManager(this.socketEmitter);
     }
 
     initProxyListener() {
diff --git a/src/io/backend/proxiedsocket.js b/src/io/backend/proxiedsocket.js
index 38e004b6..64db50a2 100644
--- a/src/io/backend/proxiedsocket.js
+++ b/src/io/backend/proxiedsocket.js
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ export default class ProxiedSocket extends EventEmitter {
     }
 
     emit() {
-        const target = socketEmitter.to(this.id);
+        const target = this.socketEmitter.to(this.id);
         target.emit.apply(target, arguments);
     }
 
diff --git a/src/io/ioserver.js b/src/io/ioserver.js
index 0f625783..6def95f8 100644
--- a/src/io/ioserver.js
+++ b/src/io/ioserver.js
@@ -273,7 +273,9 @@ module.exports = {
 
             bound[id] = null;
         });
-    }
+    },
+
+    handleConnection: handleConnection
 };
 
 /* Clean out old rate limiters */
diff --git a/src/server.js b/src/server.js
index fd79c9f1..20c8c7e9 100644
--- a/src/server.js
+++ b/src/server.js
@@ -127,6 +127,20 @@ var Server = function () {
     });
 
     require("./io/ioserver").init(self, webConfig);
+    const redisAdapter = require('socket.io-redis');
+    const IOBackend = require('./io/backend/iobackend');
+    const sioEmitter = require("socket.io").instance;
+    sioEmitter.adapter(redisAdapter());
+    const listenerConfig = {
+        getPort: function () {
+            return 3071;
+        },
+
+        getHost: function () {
+            return '127.0.0.1';
+        }
+    };
+    const backend = new IOBackend(listenerConfig, sioEmitter);
 
     // background tasks init ----------------------------------------------
     require("./bgtask")(self);