All of the Brookline solutions are built upon a distributed n-tier architecture, where the system tiers include the database tier, data manager tier, application tier, web services tier, and presentation tier (user interface). All of these tiers can operate on a single server, or they may be distributed across two, five, twenty, fifty, or more servers, depending on the system demand requirements.

This architecture facilitates almost limitless scalability by adding cost-effective Intel or AMD servers to any tier where processing demands are the greatest. And because the system is distributed, load balancing may be deployed to even out server utilization and performance and provide server fail-over (facilitating server redundancy to eliminate any single point of failure) to ensure system uptime and availability. The Architecture Diagram illustrates Brookline’s n-tier architecture.

This architecture is the basis of global seamless genealogy systems that Brookline has deployed for some of the largest and fastest growing direct selling businesses in the world. It is also the architecture that enables direct response businesses to process thousands of orders per hour.

Brookline’s Internet applications are built on Microsoft’s .NET architecture using the C# language. All of the Internet applications access the Brookline application tier through the same API (Application Program Interface) that other client applications, such as the call center application, use.