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natural or business domains; software for telecommunications is an example.
It is still possible to create a domain model in these domains, but it requires
a high degree of abstraction and stepping back from familiar designs.

For example, here are some candidate conceptual classes related to a

telecommunication switch: Message, Connection, Port, Dialog, Route,
Protocol.

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