The Content Gateway platform architecture is comprised of hardware and software components.
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Client applications and users
Client applications use the Gateway over a network and communicate via the SCSP storage protocol or another protocol such as S3 translated by a protocol personality. Client applications include common web browsers such as Firefox , and Chrome, or Safari or they can be software from third-party ISVs, or custom in-house software developed by clients. Users are people utilizing client application software communicating with Gateway. The implication is users are making use of one or more client applications to interact with Gateway.
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The Gateway is a value-added front-end for the Swarm storage cluster. At the core, it is a stateless reverse proxy deployed in an n+1 configuration for horizontal scaling and high - availability. The value-added features provided by the Gateway enhance the Swarm SCSP client protocol and provide storage management and protection for the back-end storage cluster.
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Integrity Seal hash-type upgrades
Trailing Content-MD5 headers[deprecated] Swarm
Swarm legacy auth/auth mechanismStatus colour Red title Deprecated Swarm legal hold mechanism
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The Swarm storage cluster provides a scalable , object storage engine for the Gateway platform. The storage engine consists of standard x86 hardware that manage manages and protect protects storage for multiple tenants.
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Clusters communicate directly with each without passing through Gateway
Gateway The gateway acts as a front-end reverse proxy for a cluster
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