Federation allows for an unlimited number of workspaces to communicate with each other. Federating a workspace makes it visible to other workspaces over the federated network, and this makes communication with other Federation-enabled servers possible.
Rocket.Chat provides Federation using the Matrix Protocol and the Rocket.Chat Federation Network (Will be deprecated on 6.0.0).
{% hint style="info" %} We strongly recommend federating using Matrix Protocol {% endhint %}
See the guide on configuring federation:
{% content-ref url="federation/matrix-bridge/" %} matrix-bridge {% endcontent-ref %}
{% content-ref url="federation/rocket.chat-federation.md" %} rocket.chat-federation.md {% endcontent-ref %}