How do standards benefit the industry (both vendors and customers)?
Benefits to the vending industry include the advantage of being able to concentrate on what they do best, which is designing and building vending equipment. This takes a great deal of risk out of projects and enables them to bid at a lower price and still maintain a fair level of profit. Benefits to the user community include better equipment, better pricing, more predictable network performance, and the ability to mix and match equipment and network software vendors.
