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 ### 4.2 Writing a custom data plane extension (sink/source)
 
+The EDC Data Plane is build on top of the *Data Plane Framework (DPF)*, which can be used for building custom data planes.
+ The framework has extensibility points for supporting different data sources and sinks (e.g., S3, HTTP, Kafka) and can perform direct streaming between different source and sink types.
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+Detailed documentation about writing a custom data plane extension can be found [here](./data-plane/data-plane-extensions.md)
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 ### 4.3 Writing a custom data plane (using only DPS)
 
 ## 5. Development best practices