Define: System Software
What does "System Software" mean? The meaning differs based on the contract. We found 2 definitions across 1 company in SEC filings.
Definition 1 (CIENA CORP, seen in 1 filing)
System Software means computer programs and routines, with embedded Third Party Software, integral to a Deliverable and contained on a magnetic tape, disk, semi-conductor device, or other memory device or system memory and consisting of (a) hard-wired logic instructions which manipulate data in the central processor and control input-output operations, and error diagnostic and recovery routines, and (b) other instruction sequences in machine readable code, as well as associated Documentation used to describe, maintain or use such programs and routines.
Source: CIENA CORP S-1
Definition 2 (CIENA CORP, seen in 1 filing)
System Software means computer programs and routines, with Third Party Software, embedded in and integral to a product contained in the WDM System and contained on a magnetic tape, disk, semiconductor device, or other memory device or system memory and consisting of (a) hard-wired logic instructions which manipulate data in the central processor and control input/output operations, and error diagnostic and recovery routines, and (b) other instruction sequences, in machine readable but not source code, as well as associated documentation used to describe, maintain or use such programs and routines.
Source: CIENA CORP S-1
Data extracted from 2 SEC EDGAR filings across 1 company. Source: Material contracts (Exhibit 10) filed under Regulation S-K.
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