An effort was made to shore up the Open Door in 1921-22 at the Washington Naval Conference, but a challenge was again mounted by the Japanese in the 1930s as they expanded their control in Manchuria. China would not be recognized as a sovereign state until after World War II.
The maximum number of connections across SQL Server versions and editions is 32,767. You can determine how many connections SQL Server currently has by looking at:
Network communications mechanisms for SQL Server. Problem. I am trying to understand how SQL Server communicates on the network, because I'm having to tell my networking team what ports to open up on the firewall for an edge web server to communicate back to the SQL Server on the inside.