Bergate: enhanced network system - system concept

This paper describes a system architecture for a high performance system, which will provide high speed communication services over high speed networks available now or in the near future. Based on the experience of the design group form the BERGATE [1], [2], [3] project, we try in the design phase to consequently avoid any known system bottlenecks, such as conventional system buses, or heaveyweighted protocols. The system will provide support for existing protocols stacks, support for new applications that want to bypass protocol layers and support for the implementation of new lightweighted protocols.