A transport link is a secure TCP/IP connection between the AE Services server and a Processor Ethernet on Communication Manager. When the AE Services Transport Service starts up, it establishes the transport link between the AE server and the Communication Manager server, based on administering a switch connection in the AE Services Management Console.

The Processor Ethernet IP addresses that you administer from the Edit Processor Ethernet IPs page in the AE Services Management Console are used to set up TLS connections between AE Services and Communication Manager. These are TLS connections called transport links.