Uplink platform

Uplink platforms are a common sight on Cybertron.

Fiction

Energon comic

When Optimus Prime approached Over-Run for help regarding the status of Unicron, Over-Run advised him to ask the planet. To deal with Optimus's confusion over that answer, Over-Run informed him that the uplink platform at the southern polar peninsula stood in direct contact with the planetary mainframe, the Hub, and that he should go there to receive his answers. Optimus had Hot Shot and Ironhide tag along, finding himself invisible to them the moment he touched the uplink platform and made contact with the Hub. After being treated to a couple of visions giving him more information than he'd even been looking for, the link was disengaged and Optimus was returned to the physical realm. This Evil Reborn

During the battle with Unicron's Four Horsemen that followed soon after, Strongarm revealed that Over-Run had played Dumbo's magic feather with Optimus Prime because he, as Prime, could access the Hub from anywhere on Cybertron and that the uplink platform had just been a distraction to help him get over his confusion. What Lies Beneath, Part Two