Apple believes that communications and collaboration technologies are integral and fundamental to personal and workgroup computing. With Open Transport our goal is to provide the foundation to make the MacOS the best desktop OS for multiprotocol networking, anywhere.
High performance is also key.
Network managers need networked systems to support a flexible model of administration that accommodates both centralized and decentralized management models. Users are typically more interested in using communications as a basis for productivity applications. As such, they want networking that is easy to set up and easy to use. This becomes even more important when users are mobile, needing access to networking services from wherever they may be - without requiring complex reconfiguration for each connection type. Developers need to address the broadest possible markets with minimum incremental investment.