INTEROPERABILITY
INTEROPERABILITY
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SECTION 1
INTEROPERABILITY
The ability of systems, units, or forces
to provide services to and accept services
from other systems, units or forces and to
use the services so exchanged to enable
them to operate effectively together.
The condition achieved among systems or
items of communications-electronics
equipment when information or services
can be exchanged directly and the
satisfactorily between them and/or their
users. The degree of interoperability
should be defined when referring to
specific cases.
Source: Department of Defense Dictionary
of Military and Associated Terms in
support of MIL-STD-188. With respect to
software, the term interoperability is
also used to describe the capability of
different programs to read and write the
same file formats and utilise the same
title protocols. Interoperability can
have important economic consequences,
such as network externalities.
If competitors' products are not
interoperable (due to causes such as
patents, trade secrets or coordination
failures), the result may well be
monopoly or market failure. For this
reason, it may be prudent for the
governments to take steps to encouage
interoperability in various situations.
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SECTION 2
INTEROPERABILITY
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COMMUNICATIONS APPLIED TECHNOLOGY
http://www.c-at.com/
CTA COMMUNICATIONS, INC
http://www.ctacommunications.com/
FEDERAL COMMUNICATION COMMISSION
http://www.fcc.gov/
FIRE RESCUE 1
http://www.firerescue1.com/
NATIONAL MEMORIAL INSTITUTE FOR
THE PREVENTION OF TERRORISM
http://www.mipt.org/
POLICE ONE
http://www.policeone.com/
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF
HOMELAND SECURITY
http://www.dhs.gov/
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