How do interface specifications affect my costs of doing business?
The goals of any enterprise should include reducing the costs of operation by minimizing capital expenditures and prolonging the useful lifetimes of capital equipment. With a standard interface specification, vending equipment and network interface equipment can be purchased independently of each other and mixed and matched with multiple vendors of equipment and systems. Vendors using a standard specification do not have to expend the significant effort required to design their own interfaces and to implement multiple standards, which produces savings that can be passed along to the customer as lower prices.
