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 Qpid Dispatch
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-A lightweight AMQP router for building scalable, available, and performant messaging
-interconnect.
+Qpid Dispatch is a high-performance, lightweight AMQP 1.0 message router.
+It provides flexible and scalable interconnect between any AMQP endpoints,
+whether they be clients, brokers or other AMQP-enabled services.
 
 Dependencies
 ============