Types and Addressing of Pipes

Types of Pipes:

• Uni-directional asynchronous - One directional communications. Messages may arrive out of order.
  
  
• Synchronous request/response - Messages arrive in the order send and are accompanied by a response.
  
  
• Bulk Transfer - Used to move large amounts of data
  
  
• Streaming - Used to transfer streaming data.
  
  
• Bidirectional - A combination of two asynchronous pipes.
  
  
• Uni-directional synchronous - Messages arrive in the order sent. Messages receive an "ack".
  
  
• Unicast reliable secure - Messages receive an "ack" and are encrypted.
  
  
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Types of Addressing:

• Point-to-Point - Connect two different peers using gateways, routers, etc.
  
  
• Propagate aka "wire" - Connect one peer to multiple destination peers using gateways routers etc.