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What is Vortex Link ?
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Vortex Link is the ubiquitous and universally accessible 'Internet
Service' for sharing data between Vortex-enabled applications. Vortex
Link can be deployed on public or private clouds, it is elastic,
fault-tolerant and highly scalable. Vortex Link can be deployed
in any subsystem (typically a LAN) to allow all DDS applications to share
data with other DDS applications in the cloud or in any other subsystem.

Thanks to its flexible architecture, Vortex Link supports several different deployment and connectivity
scenarios, including Device to Cloud and System to Cloud, as well as
system federation. Additionally, Vortex Link supports multiple protocol
transports, such as TCP/IP and UDP/IP (unicast and multicast) and can
even mediate between transports. Security is supported in Vortex Link,
taking advantage of internet standards such as TLS.

This User Guide will get you started with Vortex Link.

If you have any questions, please contact us at
`ADLINK support`_ .

.. _`ADLINK support`: http://ist.adlinktech.com/support


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   **Vortex Link**