Is your organization spread across multiple offices in geographically dispersed locations? Does a particular team have members in multiple offices? While the last chapter helps you balance load in a single location, in this chapter, we'll look at the other major communication bottleneck—connecting users across multiple locations. The complexity here of course is that users in different locations are connected to their own regional intranets. But if you run Openfire servers on your various intranets, you can easily configure them to talk to each other.
This seemingly difficult task is managed by the Openfire feature known as server-to-server communication. True to its name, the server-to-server communication feature helps establish communication between two different Openfire servers. It doesn't matter if the servers are in different buildings or in different continents, as long as they can be reached via either the Internet or a dedicated...