Data Exchange Layer Architecture

The Data Exchange Layer (DXL) architecture is a publish/subscribe-based middleware that allows DXL clients to communicate with each other over the message bus in near-real time.

Broker

Brokers are responsible for routing messages between the clients that are connected to the message bus. Brokers can be connected to each other ("bridged") to allow for redundancy, scalability, and communication across different geographical locations.

Client

Clients connect to brokers for the purposes of exchanging messages. Communication with brokers is over a TLS-based connection with bi-directional authentication (PKI).