A territory is a group of inter-connected Brokers that functions as one logical Broker. All Brokers in a territory maintain the same set of document types and client groups, however, they each support their own set of clients.

A client can connect to any Broker in the territory and publish documents to or receive documents from any other client in the territory. The Broker to which a client publishes documents takes care of forwarding those documents to subscribers that are connected to other Brokers in the territory. To an individual publisher or subscriber, a territory appears as one large Broker.

Brokers that operate in a territory are peers. There is no "central" or "controlling" Broker. Each Broker in the territory is responsible for notifying its peers of changes (e.g., additions, deletions, or modifications) that occur to its document types or client groups. By dynamically propagating changes to all Brokers in this manner, document types and client groups remain synchronized across the entire territory.