| 摘要 |
<p>Apparatus for testing and/or monitoring the transmission of data packets by communications equipment, the apparatus comprising: (i) registering means (207) for registering one or more transmission protocols to enable the apparatus to communicate according to any registered protocol; (ii) submitting means (205) for submitting a request, the request specifying at least one testing and/or monitoring operation; (iii) decoding means (212) for decoding a received request into one or more processable events in accordance with one or more predetermined rules; (iv) read/write means (213) for controlling the writing of data packets to, and the reading of data packets from, the communications equipment; and (v) scheduling means (211) 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 (205), the scheduling means (211) schedules: a) decoding of the request into one or more processable events by the decoding means (212); b) initialisation of the processable events by the decoding means (212); and c) reading an writing of data packets from and to the communications equipment by the read/write means (213) in accordance with the processable events.</p> |
