The advantages of {HEAD ~ heterogeneity} and concurrency of the distributed system are thus extended to its switched communications links with {TAIL ~ external switched networks} 
The advantages of { HEAD ~ heterogeneity } and concurrency of the distributed system are thus extended to its switched communications links with { TAIL ~ external switched networks }
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