Remote Communications

UCOS delivers a more economical distributed architecture due, in part, to more efficient communications.

The advantages of a distributed architecture are clear: It lets you distribute the workload and the risk of communications or component failure.

The disadvantages are equally clear: It requires specialized and typically expensive communications software and hardware to accommodate the heavy network traffic inherent in a distributed architecture.

It may be inherent in a traditional distributed architecture, but not in a UCOS distributed architecture.

UCOS employs highly efficient report-by-exception communications techniques that distribute only data that has been requested by other nodes, data that has changed, or data that has changed more than a user-configured deadband.

Report-by-exception delivers accurate data where it's needed but significantly reduces network traffic and eliminates the need for specialized and expensive communications hardware and software.

With a UCOS system you could economically distribute copies of the entire database in multiple locations – or you could distribute only the data needed at each location.