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For example, the following gure shows three-site WAN conguration. Each cluster uses two gateway senders
to replicate DML operations to the other clusters in the system.
Figure 5:WAN configuration with multiple gateway senders
Gateway Configuration Overview
The logical connections between distinct SQLFire clusters are known as gateways. Gateways are congured in
one or more SQLFire data store members and consist of two physical connections: a gateway sender and a
gateway receiver.
A gateway receiver provides a physical connection for receiving DML operations from one or more remote
SQLFire clusters for replicating those operations in the local cluster. Each SQLFire cluster needs only a single
named gateway receiver to replicate data from all other remote sites. Remote gateway senders use any available
gateway receiver to send DML operations. However, you can deploy a gateway receiver to multiple SQLFire
members for high availability.
A gateway sender runs on a SQLFire data store members, and it replicates congured table DML operations
to another SQLFire distributed system. Each sender is usually hosted by more than one data store member, with
one member hosting the primary gateway sender instance and the others hosting backup instances. The primary
is the only instance that communicates with remote sites at a given time. Gateway senders are identied within
the distributed system by a unique identier.
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