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Leveraging AdvancedTCA and COTS Security Software to Accelerate Security Gateway Implementation
As network traffic grows across the all-IP networks in the mobile and broadband infrastructure, service providers are challenged with making sure their networks and services provide a secure environment for their customers. With stringent SLAs, the risk of security breaches in their IT networks can cause loss of integrity, disruption, and financial loss - issues that can damage a company's value, brand, and business. Equipment...
preview: http://www.lightreading.com   date: 6/10/2008

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Net-centric warfare: How COTS internet communications
The Fourth Wave of the Internet is upon us, with millions of new users joining the “inter-web” every year—and tens of millions of connected devices are sharing everything from simple keywords to location-aware “mash-up” concert databases. Web 2.0 apps like Twitter combined with an always-on BlackBerry or iPhone have taken the world by storm: today, everyone demands network connectivity. And so does our military. These same civilian COTS...
preview: http://w.on24.com   date: 11/12/2008

eletter    

COTS Journal (Digital Edition)
Taking you into the world of the military acquisition machine, COTS Journal provides in-depth coverage of commercially available embedded technology and its specific uses in military electronics and equipment. The COTS (Commercial Off-The-Shelf) initiative is a revolution in military electronics development, and COTS Journal has helped lead the way. Free to engineers worldwide!
preview: http://www.cotsjournalonline.com  

misc.    

COTS vs. GOTS
On the lighter side - COTS Defined COTS - Commercial-off-the-shelf: Which means it probably isn't good enough for military use MOTS - Military-off-the-shelf: Which is good enough for military use but costs too much GOTS - What you're actually going to war with, whatever you gots.
preview: http://www.strategypage.com  

project    

Ballista
Ballista is a project to automatically test commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software for and harden against robustness "bugs" (e.g., "hangs" and "crashes"). In particular, the emphasis is on proper detection and handling of exceptional conditions so that their occurrence does not compromise the integrity of system operation.
preview: http://www.cs.cmu.edu  

overview    

Commercial off-the-shelf From Wikipedia
Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) is a term for software or hardware, generally technology or computer products, that are ready-made and available for sale, lease, or license to the general public. They are often used as alternatives to in-house developments or one-off government-funded developments. The use of COTS is being mandated across many government and business programs, as they may offer significant savings in procurement and...
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book    

COTS-Based Software Systems : 4th International Conference, ICCBSS 2005, Bilbao, Spain...
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on COTS-Based Software Systems, ICCBSS 2005, held in Bilbao, Spain in February 2005. The 28 revised full papers presented together with summaries of panels, workshops, tutorials, and posters were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on COTS at business, integration and interoperability,...
preview: http://www.amazon.com   date: 3/24/2005