| 摘要 |
Apparatus for testing and/or monitoring the transmission of data packets by communications equipment, the apparatus comprising: (i) registering means for registering one or more transmission protocols to enable the apparatus to communicate according to any registered protocol; (ii) submitting means for submitting a request, the request specifying at least one testing and/or monitoring operation; (iii) decoding means for decoding a received request into one or more processable events in accordance with one or more predetermined rules; (iv) read/write means for controlling the writing of data packets to, and the reading of data packets from, the communications equipment; and (v) scheduling means for scheduling decoding of received requests and execution of the one or more processable events in accordance with the read/write means, such that, when a request is received from the submitting means, the scheduling means schedules: a) decoding of the request into one or more processable events by the decoding means; b) initialization of the processable events by the decoding means; and c) reading and writing of data packets from and to the communications equipment by the read/write means in accordance with the processable events.
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