The original purpose of the data aggregator was to be an intelligent, true proxy for multiple data providers, recognizing the reality of connectivity from offshore, poorly connected data provider nodes. In this drawing, I guess it appears that the main purpose of the aggregator is to provide data to a visualizer. This ignores the concept of providing data to down-stream requesters as well as providing a path to archivers (arguably an instance of downstream requesters).
from Gerry C. email June 23, 2008 12:25:55 AM EDT
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The original purpose of the data aggregator was to be an intelligent, true proxy for multiple data providers, recognizing the reality of connectivity from offshore, poorly connected data provider nodes. In this drawing, I guess it appears that the main purpose of the aggregator is to provide data to a visualizer. This ignores the concept of providing data to down-stream requesters as well as providing a path to archivers (arguably an instance of downstream requesters).
from Gerry C. email June 23, 2008 12:25:55 AM EDT
Archiver to Data Aggregator now has the same relation as Visualizer to DataAggregator. All descriptions were updated