so what you are trying to say is that all the competing vendors with varying degrees of HW/SW expertise, can implement the solutions that will always co-operate

so what you are trying to say is that all the competing vendors with varying degrees of HW/SW expertise, can implement the solutions that will always co-operate in real-time among different generations of products, has no lag/delay, glitch that would cause abnormal behavior resulting in a traffic wave. I doubt that. We don't seem to be able to that on far simpler stuffs.