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SharePoint Products and Technologies can be deployed in a wide range of topologies to provide high availability and various degrees of scale-out, depending on the requirements of particular deployment scenarios. A particular deployment of one or more servers is called a farm. The following figure shows the protocol topology for SharePoint Products and Technologies. This figure shows the components deployed on separate servers, but the components can also run compatibly on a single server.
Figure 1: SharePoint Products and Technologies deployment topology
Servers of each type can be added to a deployment of SharePoint Products and Technologies as needed by the specific usage scenario. These additional servers, such as front-end Web servers, supply additional computing resources to provide load-balancing and scalability.
The following sections briefly describe the SharePoint Products and Technologies deployment topology.