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ArticlesWhat It Takes to Make a Telecom OS

June 1997 / International Features / European Telecoms Brace for Change / What It Takes to Make a Telecom OS

Real-time: The ability to handle streams of time-critical multimedia data.

Multithreading: Concurrent managment of simultaneous media stream s while doing other adminstrative tasks.

Scalability: The ability to run on anything from a pocket cell phone to a multiprocessor media server.

Coherent communications: Support of location-transparent messaging between remote and local processes.

Modularity: Adaptation to new environments by adding and removing modules.

Dynamic reconfiguration: Addin g and removing new modules while the OS is running.

Fault tolerance: The ability to recover from hardware and software errors by hot-restarting without stopping or rebooting.

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