Chapter 5
Federation, Presence, Identity, and Privacy in the Cloud
5.1 Chapter Overview
Building a seamless federated communications capability in a cloud environment, one that is capable of supporting people, devices, information feeds, documents, application interfaces, and other entities, is affected by the architecture that is implemented. The solution chosen must be able to find such entities, determine their purpose, and request presence data so that others can interact with them in real time. This process is known as discovery. Providing discovery information about the availability of various entities enables organizations to deploy real-time services and achieve significant revenue opportunities and productivity improvements.
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