App Interoperability
Backplane Protocol is a "message bus" for social applications, enabling applications developed by disparate vendors to communicate with each other in real-time. Integrate multiple apps such as real-time commenting, social login and game mechanics into your site in order to provide web visitors with a modern, social user experience.
Open Standards
Backplane Protocol builds on proven and popular open standards work by leveraging technologies such as OpenID, OAuth, and Portable Contacts. As a proposed open standard, it reduces the need for companies and independent developers to learn and develop against other vendors' proprietary APIs.
Easy to Implement
Backplane Protocol can be quickly added to any page, application, or login system using a little bit of JavaScript, reducing time to market and costs in website deployments.
Backplane as a Service
Use Echo BackplaneServer to quickly enable Backplane on your site without the cost and complexity of standing up your own servers.
First and Biggest
Echo BackplaneServer was the first Backplane Protocol server in existence. It is currently the largest, serving 5,000 Backplane requests per second.
For more detail on how to use BackplaneServer,
visit the Backplane section of the Echo developer site
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