Applying Software Component Technology to NP-based System for Novel Network Services

With the explosion of low-cost bandwidth availability, many desirable e-business features require new functionality in enterprise networking systems, and thus force the network components to be both flexible and powerful. Programmable routers (typically NP-based systems) as a platform on which to implement the enterprise applications seem to fit the bill. Meanwhile, the demands for accommodating an increasingly diverse range of novel network services in such system are still keep growing. To meet these challenges, this paper presents a novel methodology for building control plane software using component technology in programmable network environment. The proposed approach can facilitate the developing of scalable, flexible modular NP-based systems that are required to the e-business world