Abstract: A system for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) communication includes a plurality of SOA nodes having a standardized hardware configuration, wherein the standardized hardware configuration includes an operating engine, an encryption module accessed by the operating engine, which provides security for message traffic, a compression module to compress and decompress the message traffic, a routing module accessed by the operating engine, to determine the routing of message types, incoming traffic routed to appropriate service clients, outbound traffic routed to appropriate SOA devices, a security module that authenticates and authorizes message traffic, and one or more network interfaces, and one or more networks over which the SOA nodes communicate with one another.