Integration Options
Data Connection's portable protocol software provides high performance, flexible and reliable signaling components for current and next-generation networking devices.
The software is extremely modular in design, with published interfaces: customizable macro interfaces to the operating system services and asynchronous, message-based interfaces between the components. This design enables the software to be readily integrated with any operating system and underlying hardware, as well as custom user applications, third-party components, and legacy systems.
Data Connection partners with third-party organizations to supply integrated solutions that combine each party's technology and minimize the integration effort and risk for our customers. In conjunction with its partners, Data Connection can provide an extensive range of example code and pre-integration solutions. This includes an out-of-the-box software router for Linux, which demonstrates integration with all the necessary complementary components to create a complete multi-protocol router.
Data Connection's portable protocol software products are available separately and as pre-integrated control plane solutions for different applications. Further details on these applications are described in Integrated Control Plane Solutions.
Management Interface Integration
All the products use a MIB-like interface for management and configuration, which is designed for integration with CLI, GUI and SMNP management suites. We can also supply pre-integrated CLI, XML/Web and SNMP management interfaces using embeddedMINDTM from our partner Silicon & Software Systems (S3).
Operating System Integration
All of the products share the same N-BASE portability environment, which ensures that they are fully portable. Click here for further information on the N-BASE. Pre-ported solutions are provided for popular embedded operating systems including VxWorks, Linux, Windows, OSE, Solaris and LynxOS. These standard ports may also be used as the model for other operating systems, and using these our customers have ported our products to almost every operating system and hardware platform available.
IP Stack Integration
The asynchronous, message-based interfaces to the underlying IP transport allow the products to be efficiently integrated in all system architectures. We provide integration with the standard IP stack for each operating system as part of our standard N-BASE ports, and with third-party IP stacks from our partners.
Data Plane Integration
For performance reasons, Data Plane functionality is normally closely integrated with the communications hardware, so most chipsets are supplied with their own Layer 1 & 2 drivers. Data Connection uses asynchronous message-based interfaces to the data plane and works closely with hardware manufacturers to ensure its interfaces map easily onto the underlying functionality.
Some of our partners also offer components to map directly between our APIs and their proprietary interfaces.