Component-based network systems engineering

Just over a hundred years ago Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone-and thus began true global communications. &Quot;Trying to stay on top of the ever-increasing array of options available to you as you combine and update your information network?. Using this guide to building component-based network systems, you can combine hardware, software, and other network elements in a predictable, competent way. Component-Based Network System Engineering helps you avoid costly mistakes and make the right choices."--BOOK JACKET. "The book explores interfaces, integration, components, and architectures; explains how these elements relate; and helps you determine the combinations and approaches that will yield the best results for your organization's needs. You get hands-on guidance to building systems based upon real-world experience and solid network engineering theory without getting bogged down in technological complexity."--BOOK JACKET At the Edge of Communication. Interfaces. Components. Integration. Architecture & Structure. By Three's and Four's - Bringing It All Together. Engineering the Vision. Toward Component-Based Engineering. Interfaces & Integration - Standards and Formality. From Here to Eternity. The Interface Equation - A Formal Theory of Interfaces. Standards and Key Concepts. Glossary. A guide to building component-based systems combining hardware, software and network elements. It explains interfaces, integration, components and architectures, how they relate, and what combinations and approaches will yield the best results for your organization's needs.