The Client Tier contains Perceptive Content Clients, Interact Desktop, and other Web service clients such as Interact for Epic and SharePoint. In this tier, communication occurs as follows:
- For Perceptive Content Client and Interact Desktop, communication occurs using TCP/IP and AES directly from a load-balancing device in the Application tier.
- For the Experience clients, communication occurs using HTTP or HTTPS and SSL directly from the load-balancing device in the Web tier. HTTP or HTTPS and SSL manage communications between the web service clients and the Web tier.