Implementation of an Open Multi-Service Router
Fred Kuhns · Open Scholarship Institutional Repository (Washington University in St. Louis) · 2001
This paper describes the design, implementation and performance of an open, highperformance, dynamically reconfigurable Multi-Service Router (MSR) being developed at Washington University in St. Louis. This router provides an experimental platform for research on protocols, router software and hardware design, network management, quality of service and advanced applications. The MSR has been designed to be flexible, without sacrificing performance. It supports gigabit links and uses a scalable architecture suitable for supporting hundreds or even thousands of links. The MSR's flexibility makes it an ideal platform for experimental research on dynamically extensible networks that implement higher level functions in direct support of individual application sessions.