diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index a479eeb5..4adcda70 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -3306,6 +3306,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "serde-wasm-bindgen",
  "serde_json",
  "thiserror 2.0.6",
+ "tokio-util",
  "wasm-bindgen",
  "wasm-bindgen-futures",
  "web-sys",
@@ -5014,6 +5015,7 @@ checksum = "d7fcaa8d55a2bdd6b83ace262b016eca0d79ee02818c5c1bcdf0305114081078"
 dependencies = [
  "bytes",
  "futures-core",
+ "futures-io",
  "futures-sink",
  "pin-project-lite",
  "tokio",
diff --git a/matchbox_socket/Cargo.toml b/matchbox_socket/Cargo.toml
index f421939a..c2f5c287 100644
--- a/matchbox_socket/Cargo.toml
+++ b/matchbox_socket/Cargo.toml
@@ -40,9 +40,11 @@ once_cell = { version = "1.17", default-features = false, features = [
   "alloc",
 ] }
 derive_more = { version = "1.0", features = ["display", "from"] }
+tokio-util = { version = "0.7", features = ["io", "compat"] }
 
 ggrs = { version = "0.10", default-features = false, optional = true }
 bincode = { version = "1.3", default-features = false, optional = true }
+bytes = { version = "1.1", default-features = false }
 
 [target.'cfg(target_arch = "wasm32")'.dependencies]
 ggrs = { version = "0.10", default-features = false, optional = true, features = [
@@ -79,7 +81,6 @@ async-tungstenite = { version = "0.28", default-features = false, features = [
   "async-tls",
 ] }
 webrtc = { version = "0.12", default-features = false }
-bytes = { version = "1.1", default-features = false }
 async-compat = { version = "0.2", default-features = false }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
diff --git a/matchbox_socket/src/webrtc_socket/socket.rs b/matchbox_socket/src/webrtc_socket/socket.rs
index c125cd2d..ccb5ab8c 100644
--- a/matchbox_socket/src/webrtc_socket/socket.rs
+++ b/matchbox_socket/src/webrtc_socket/socket.rs
@@ -6,11 +6,19 @@ use crate::{
     },
     Error,
 };
-use futures::{future::Fuse, select, Future, FutureExt, StreamExt};
+use bytes::Bytes;
+use futures::{
+    future::Fuse, select, AsyncRead, AsyncWrite, Future, FutureExt, Sink, SinkExt, Stream,
+    StreamExt, TryStreamExt,
+};
 use futures_channel::mpsc::{SendError, TrySendError, UnboundedReceiver, UnboundedSender};
 use log::{debug, error};
 use matchbox_protocol::PeerId;
-use std::{collections::HashMap, pin::Pin, time::Duration};
+use std::{collections::HashMap, future::ready, pin::Pin, task::Poll, time::Duration};
+use tokio_util::{
+    compat::TokioAsyncWriteCompatExt,
+    io::{CopyToBytes, SinkWriter},
+};
 
 /// Configuration options for an ICE server connection.
 /// See also: <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/RTCIceServer#example>
@@ -310,6 +318,119 @@ impl WebRtcChannel {
     }
 }
 
+impl Stream for WebRtcChannel {
+    type Item = (PeerId, Packet);
+
+    fn poll_next(
+        self: Pin<&mut Self>,
+        cx: &mut std::task::Context<'_>,
+    ) -> Poll<Option<Self::Item>> {
+        let mut rx = Pin::new(&mut self.get_mut().rx);
+        rx.as_mut().poll_next(cx)
+    }
+}
+
+impl Sink<(PeerId, Packet)> for WebRtcChannel {
+    type Error = SendError;
+
+    fn poll_ready(
+        self: Pin<&mut Self>,
+        cx: &mut std::task::Context<'_>,
+    ) -> Poll<Result<(), Self::Error>> {
+        let mut tx = Pin::new(&mut self.get_mut().tx);
+        tx.as_mut().poll_ready(cx)
+    }
+
+    fn start_send(self: Pin<&mut Self>, item: (PeerId, Packet)) -> Result<(), Self::Error> {
+        let mut tx = Pin::new(&mut self.get_mut().tx);
+        tx.as_mut().start_send(item)
+    }
+
+    fn poll_flush(
+        self: Pin<&mut Self>,
+        cx: &mut std::task::Context<'_>,
+    ) -> Poll<Result<(), Self::Error>> {
+        let mut tx = Pin::new(&mut self.get_mut().tx);
+        tx.as_mut().poll_flush(cx)
+    }
+
+    fn poll_close(
+        self: Pin<&mut Self>,
+        cx: &mut std::task::Context<'_>,
+    ) -> Poll<Result<(), Self::Error>> {
+        let mut tx = Pin::new(&mut self.get_mut().tx);
+        tx.as_mut().poll_close(cx)
+    }
+}
+
+/// A channel which supports reading and writing raw bytes.
+pub struct RawPeerChannel<R, W> {
+    id: Option<PeerId>,
+    remote: PeerId,
+    reader: R,
+    writer: W,
+}
+
+impl<R, W> RawPeerChannel<R, W> {
+    /// Returns the id of this peer.
+    ///
+    /// Also see [`WebRtcSocket::id`].
+    pub fn id(&self) -> Option<PeerId> {
+        self.id
+    }
+
+    /// Returns the id of the remote peer to which this channel is connected.
+    pub fn remote(&self) -> PeerId {
+        self.remote
+    }
+}
+
+impl<R, W> AsyncRead for RawPeerChannel<R, W>
+where
+    Self: Unpin,
+    R: AsyncRead + Unpin,
+{
+    fn poll_read(
+        self: Pin<&mut Self>,
+        cx: &mut std::task::Context<'_>,
+        buf: &mut [u8],
+    ) -> Poll<std::io::Result<usize>> {
+        let mut reader = Pin::new(&mut self.get_mut().reader);
+        reader.as_mut().poll_read(cx, buf)
+    }
+}
+
+impl<R, W> AsyncWrite for RawPeerChannel<R, W>
+where
+    Self: Unpin,
+    W: AsyncWrite + Unpin,
+{
+    fn poll_write(
+        self: Pin<&mut Self>,
+        cx: &mut std::task::Context<'_>,
+        buf: &[u8],
+    ) -> Poll<std::io::Result<usize>> {
+        let mut writer = Pin::new(&mut self.get_mut().writer);
+        writer.as_mut().poll_write(cx, buf)
+    }
+
+    fn poll_flush(
+        self: Pin<&mut Self>,
+        cx: &mut std::task::Context<'_>,
+    ) -> Poll<std::io::Result<()>> {
+        let mut writer = Pin::new(&mut self.get_mut().writer);
+        writer.as_mut().poll_flush(cx)
+    }
+
+    fn poll_close(
+        self: Pin<&mut Self>,
+        cx: &mut std::task::Context<'_>,
+    ) -> Poll<std::io::Result<()>> {
+        let mut writer = Pin::new(&mut self.get_mut().writer);
+        writer.as_mut().poll_close(cx)
+    }
+}
+
 /// Contains a set of [`WebRtcChannel`]s and connection metadata.
 #[derive(Debug)]
 pub struct WebRtcSocket {
@@ -566,6 +687,36 @@ impl WebRtcSocket {
             .ok_or(ChannelError::Taken)
     }
 
+    /// Takes the [`WebRtcChannel`] of a given [`PeerId`].
+    pub fn take_channel_by_id(&mut self, id: PeerId) -> Result<WebRtcChannel, ChannelError> {
+        let pos = self
+            .connected_peers()
+            .position(|peer_id| peer_id == id)
+            .ok_or(ChannelError::NotFound)?;
+
+        self.take_channel(pos)
+    }
+
+    /// Converts the [`WebRtcChannel`] of a given [`PeerId`] into a [`RawPeerChannel`].
+    pub fn take_raw_by_id(
+        &mut self,
+        remote: PeerId,
+    ) -> Result<RawPeerChannel<impl AsyncRead, impl AsyncWrite>, ChannelError> {
+        let channel = self.take_channel_by_id(remote)?;
+        let id = self.id();
+
+        let (reader, writer) = compat_read_write(remote, channel.rx, channel.tx);
+
+        let peer_channel = RawPeerChannel {
+            id,
+            remote,
+            reader,
+            writer,
+        };
+
+        Ok(peer_channel)
+    }
+
     /// Returns whether any socket channel is closed
     pub fn any_channel_closed(&self) -> bool {
         self.channels
@@ -685,6 +836,26 @@ async fn run_socket(
     }
 }
 
+fn compat_read_write(
+    remote: PeerId,
+    stream: UnboundedReceiver<(PeerId, Packet)>,
+    sink: UnboundedSender<(PeerId, Packet)>,
+) -> (impl AsyncRead, impl AsyncWrite) {
+    let reader = stream
+        .then(|(_, packet)| ready(Ok::<_, std::io::Error>(packet)))
+        .into_async_read();
+
+    let writer = sink
+        .with(move |packet: Bytes| ready(Ok::<_, SendError>((remote, Box::from(packet.as_ref())))));
+
+    let writer = writer.sink_map_err(std::io::Error::other);
+    let writer = CopyToBytes::new(writer);
+    let writer = SinkWriter::new(writer);
+    let writer = TokioAsyncWriteCompatExt::compat_write(writer);
+
+    (reader, writer)
+}
+
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod test {
     use crate::{ChannelConfig, Error, WebRtcSocketBuilder};