</title> <image href="GUID-31A6FA69-418D-5F8D-A0FB-6A99AA8CC4E1_d0e76759_href.png" placement="inline"/></fig> <p>Each type of Node is related to a specific Plane in the Comms Stack. The following diagram shows that: </p> <ul><li id="GUID-11520E35-0C8B-59AB-8B00-C0D3FCB2EF3B"><p>the <i>Flow Node</i> has a one-to-one relationship with the Data Plane. </p> </li> <li id="GUID-B5305F51-3D47-5BF4-8EEF-6D5D240A199D"><p>the<i> MCPR (MetaConnection Provider) Node</i> has a one-to-one relationship with the Management Plane. </p> </li> <li id="GUID-24C548E4-3D00-5F98-BBD8-A6F8B368AA0C"><p>the Control Plane contains both the <i>SCPR Node</i> and the <i>CPR Node</i>. </p> </li> <li id="GUID-6DC64ADF-1DAD-5F7D-8433-1A1383983CC7"><p>the <i>SCPR Node</i> can have many instances in operation at the same time. </p> </li> <li id="GUID-370A9510-8068-54E3-AE14-9FA8F30A879B"><p>the <i>MCPR Node</i> can connect to resources outside the Communications stack. The offset grey box around the text MCPR represents this fact. </p> </li> </ul> <fig id="GUID-5DAECC1D-051F-5F9D-8D73-2F992C2D1003"><title>

          </title> <image href="GUID-9901F6E2-0D36-59D6-A32A-D666C4F2DAAF_d0e76813_href.png" placement="inline"/></fig> </section> <section><title>Other Nodes</title> <p>The Communications Framework has two other types of Node: <i>Tier Manager</i> and <i>Factory Container</i>. </p> <p><b>Tier manager Node </b> </p> <p>A Tier is an alternative to Access Points. A Tier gives users a different method to access the services of the Communications Infrastructure. A Tier represents a higher level communications technology or a collection of technologies. Each communications technology belongs to a Tier, but a Tier can contain more than one technology. When a user selects a technology, a Tier shows the appropriate group of technologies from which the user can select. The Tier handles the selection of the Access Point. A Tier manager Node manages each Tier in the Communications Framework. </p> <p><b>Factory Container Node </b> </p> <p>Factory Containers create Nodes. The Communications Framework supplies a Factory Container for each type of Node. The Factory Containers have published addresses and Nodes use these addresses to find and communicate with the Factory Containers. A Node can create another Node. A Node sends a request to the correct Factory Container to create the other Node. The Factory Container tries to create the new Node and reports status to the Node that made the request. </p> <p>The following diagram shows the connection between the Stack Nodes and the Tier Manager and Factory Container Nodes. </p> <fig id="GUID-8BD04C75-4923-5566-BB89-D502845B332A"><title>

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