Representation of the dataflow in d.ecs rendition service

The d.3 server (d.3 async) communicates with d.ecs rendition service via d.3 gateway. d.3 gateway distributes the requests to the available d.ecs rendition service instances. The communication between d.3 server, d.3 gateway and d.ecs rendition service is unencrypted and uses the d3fc protocol.

Moreover, the data storage of d.ecs rendition service must be considered. For the job management, all d.ecs rendition service instances communicate with an SQL-server. The connection to the SQL server is established via ODBC and can optionally be encrypted using vendor-specific functions. Moreover, all d.ecs rendition service instances access a shared directory for file exchange. This directory contains all received and created files for active jobs. The data storage/harddisk can be encrypted but the data is still accessible in clear text. Thus critical files should possibly not be sent to the d.ecs rendition service.