[JDEV] Multiple Servers, Single Domain

[Ian Littlewood]

I'm in the process of building a Jabber Server from scratch. Since the
server may have to handle many tens of thousands of users, I'm planning to
incorporate load distribution.

My question is with regard to scalability and servers. I plan on running N
servers to service M users and I think it's kludgey to require that users in
an enterprise solution be distributed over many servers and have to remember
their server or those of the people they wish to communicate with in the
enterprise. If everyone works for company "MyCompany", then everyone should
be able to connect as (for instance) "FirstName.LastName at MyCompany" rather
than "FirstName1.LastName1 at server3" and "FirstName2.LastName2 at server7", etc.

I can think of several ways of accomplishing this but is there a standard
way for Jabber servers to handle this problem? Although the server I am
building is intended to be closed (i.e. non-public) maintaining Jabber
interoperability is important.

Thanks for any info.

- Ian