Open programmable switched network architecture for IP-based converged multi-services

With great progress in LAN technologies, users require high quality real-time services as well as data communication. This is expediting network services to be gradually converging over an IP-based network platform, especially in intranet-based enterprise and campus LANs. In this paper, we propose a quality-of-service-supported programmable switched local area network architecture under development, which can provide a variety of converged multi-services on an IP-based converged network.