Transport Bridge to Isolate Spokes
Transport bridges can connect partner enterprises that must cooperate, and yet remain separate.
The following diagram shows a central control hub for the main enterprise, with spokes to partner enterprises. Although each partner enterprise must share data with the main hub, the partners must not share data with one another.
Figure 48: Transport Bridge: Common Hub with Mutually-Isolated Spokes
This use case is interesting in two respects:
- It is an example of a complex bridge topology (see Hub-and-Spoke Bridges).