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Author: Ron Rubbico, Co-CEO Hoyt Lougee, Engineering Manager Naresh Parmar, Technical Director
As telecommunications companies and service providers struggle to successfully deliver and deploy communications products and services demanded by a rapidly consolidating industry, companies are turning to mergers, acquisitions and reorganizations to realign product strategies as a means to developing more integrated solutions. This paper introduces proven strategies and techniques that drive critical product and business strategies to extract the most market leverage and revenue growth resulting from combined or restructured product lines.
Author: Jeff Fried, Communications
Computing and communications are steadily converging, driving strong demand for products that support new network protocols and architectures. This paper presents architectural analysis as a strategic option available to communications equipment providers to meet the challenges demanded by convergence. We also explore best approaches and methodologies for analyzing product extension, migration, acquisition and new product development in the context of convergence.
Author: Karl Aeder, Principal Software Engineer
This paper discusses the challenges associated with developing real-time control software, and makes both architecture and development process recommendations that can limit the risks associated with these challenges. A short case study is provided at the end of the document to show how these approaches were applied to a real world situation that resulted in commercial success.
Author: Charlie Alfred, Technical Director
This paper introduces two essential concepts: value models and architecture strategy, which are missing fom many development processes. The creation of well-defined value models provides direction that improves the quality of tradeoff decisions, especially in systems that are deployed to many users in various settings. The existence of a clearly stated architecture strategy provides a coherent high-level direction for the system. This paper shows how these two concepts can be integrated effectively.
Author: Charlie Alfred, Technical Director; Tim Bowe, Co-CEO
This paper defines what a technical product family architecture is, how it relates to the architecture of an individual product and to the core asset base. It also describes some of the important obstacles that are faced when formulating an architecture, and discusses some techniques to help overcome these obstacles.
