Figure 1 Systems-wide middleware integrates a range of systems and networks.
At Time Warner, cable systems and networks, which include HBO and CNN, were the strongest divisions.
Africa, he said, could "leapfrog" the industrial technologies that Westerners use and build truly 21st-century technology systems and networks.
Over rugged terrain, planes have to come in closer, and "Iran has a lot of mature air-defense systems and networks," he said.
Over all, AOL Time Warner's third-quarter results met analysts' expectations, in part because strong performance from other divisions, especially its cable systems and networks, offset a continuing deterioration in the AOL unit's business.
A reasonably competent programmer who is willing to delve into the arcana of computer operating systems and networks can cobble together viruses or other destructive computer code from software posted online.
Up at the avant-garde of urbex are the infiltrators, the "real" explorers, who tend to be more stimulated by systems and networks than by single sites, and who cherish the challenge involved in accessing super-secure locations.
A Cabinet Office spokesman said: "The government has carefully considered the ISC's report on foreign investment in the critical national infrastructure and its particular focus on managing new threats to the UK's telecommunications systems and networks.
It's not necessarily the path for everyone, and I wouldn't recommend it unless you have lots of support systems and networks in place, as it damn near broke me.
The proposal would prevent a company like Cablevision, which operates cable systems and networks like MSG and Fox Sports New York, from using its clout to prevent independent networks like YES from appearing on its systems.
"The United States reserves the right to respond to intrusions into government, military and national infrastructure information systems and networks by nations, terrorist groups or other adversaries in a manner it deems appropriate," said one senior Pentagon official.
