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6.1.4 The Telecommunication Domain ‐ a Challenge for INCOSE
Author(s) -
Kaffenberger Ruediger
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
incose international symposium
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-5837
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-5837.2000.tb00360.x
Subject(s) - telecommunications , domain (mathematical analysis) , telecommunications engineering , network engineering , telecommunications equipment , engineering , telecommunications service , communications system , computer science , systems engineering , mathematics , mathematical analysis
The telecommunication sector harbours the true giants among the artificial systems. Telecommunication systems have the largest physical size of man made systems, they have the most users and the largest commercial value. Telecommunication systems have even outpaced the automobile in respect to its impact onto society. However, despite these facts and despite humankind relies on the availability and effectiveness of telecommunication systems, one finds only few contributions from individuals or organisations of the telecommunication industries to the science of systems engineering. In this paper, the outline of an alternative systems engineering profile of the telecommunication domain will be presented. This profile will be used to illustrate why systems engineering in the telecommunication domain is different and why INCOSE should be interested in it.