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Ada-Europe 1999: Reliable Software Technologies — Ada-Europe’ 99 pp 250–262Cite as

An Application (Layer 7) Routing Switch with Ada95 Software

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The Top Layer Networks AppSwitch™ is a coordinated hardware and software Layer 7-application switch designed to provide Application Control for data communication networks by automatically prioritizing network traffic according to the user and the application that is generating the messages. Ada was chosen as the programming language for AppSwitch™ software because it possessed the best combination of language features to provide both high reliability and portability, specifically, language. The AppSwitchTM is a multiprocessor system and the software architecture is designed to take advantage of Ada’s distributed system features as Distributed System Annex implementations mature. Top Layer faced significant obstacles to make Ada succeed: a huge learning curve, an incomplete Ada tool chain for the processors in the system and the construction of the Ada runtime system to efficiently support the Ravenscar.

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  1. Kamrad, M, Spinney, B.: An Ada Runtime System Implementation of the Ravenscar Profile for High Speed Application-Layer Data Switch

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  1. Top Layer Networks, Inc., 2400 Computer Drive, Westborough, MA, 01581, USA

    Mike Kamrad

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  1. Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Cantabria, Avda. de los Castros s/n, E-39005, Santander, Spain

    Michael González Harbour

  2. ETSI Telecommunicacion, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, E-28040, Madrid, Spain

    Juan A. de la Puente

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Kamrad, M. (1999). An Application (Layer 7) Routing Switch with Ada95 Software. In: González Harbour, M., de la Puente, J.A. (eds) Reliable Software Technologies — Ada-Europe’ 99. Ada-Europe 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1622. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48753-0_22

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