Henning Schulzrinne, a computer science professor at Columbia University, sees similarities in cellphones and VoIP services, which consumers deem reliable as elements of a set of redundant services.
A closer relationship between the two major health care providers should make care more seamless and reduce redundant services, he added.
The service, hemorrhaging losses of a billion dollars a month, has a respectable plan to consolidate redundant services, cut costs and payroll and adapt to the Internet challenge, but it needs approval for certain parts.
Consequently, this infrastructure is responsible for the dependable mediation logic between service clients and redundant services.
So, redundant services could be executed in parallel and the adjudicator could consider the first reply it receives.
Their potential for being unavailable at critical workflow execution times forces a reliance on such redundant services.
Moreover, since functionally equivalent services may appear with completely different function names, input parameters and return types, hence complicating the dynamic discovery of redundant services.
