Business networks

As we learned in Chapter 3, Business Networks, a business network contains a collection of participants and assets that undergo a life cycle described by a series of transactions. We saw at a high level how Hyperledger Fabric provides a technology infrastructure to help implement a business network.

Let's examine the high-level structure of a business network, as shown in Figure 6.1:

Figure 6.1: Recalling a business network with four organizations and their participants

We see a business network involving four organizations. As we learned in Chapter 3, Business Networks, organizations are important because every participant that performs transactions in the network—whether an individual, system, or machine—is associated with an organization.

Figure 6.1 shows that organizations communicate with each other using a network channel. This is both simpler and more complex than it seems.

It's simpler because the network channel...