The Cius can act as a subhost in collaboration or even take over the role as a subhost subsuming workflow driven work items and tasks providing improved thoroughput and absolute system availability and performance.

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Indeed, and I do see a lot of savings and efficiency benefits in consolidating services on the Cisco comm servers allowing better subhost store-and-forward switch logic leveraging business process management minimizing installations and connections to myriads of web services and redundancies which often cause inconsistencies and even data integrity issues.

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