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Use Case 4: Extended Networks

In Use Case 4, smcompany.com, ahealthco.com, and discounts.com all participate in an extended federated network. This case is an extension of the use cases presented previously.

In this network, not all customers of ahealthco.com work at smcompany.com, so ahealthco.com provides discounts to its customers by establishing a relationship between themselves and discounts.com. Because ahealthco.com maintains user identities for every customer, it is possible for ahealthco.com to manage local credentials, such as a password for each user. By managing local credentials, ahealthco.com can authenticate users and provide single sign-on access to its partners.

In this extended network, the users access each website differently: