In most cases, manufacturing organizations want to deploy a data broker at the plant-floor for low latency processing and flexibility among other reasons. In such a case, you can use broker federation to build a UNS by deploying a broker with its own local UNS at each site, and then transmitting all the local UNSes into one enterprise-wide UNS structure on a centralized broker.
Does Distributor support Broker Federation or any way of bridging with upper level brokers?