bandwidth available on the physical network by means of multiple network agents in cases where real high speed networks are available networks which have transfer rates higher than dlt drives multiple pipelines are set up to utilize resources available to the full extent from the foregoing discussion numerous advantages of the data pipe pipeline data transfer system using semaphore signaled shared memory to produce a general purpose flexible data transfer mechanism are apparent included among these advantages are 1 its flexible nature u2014 the modules that are plugged into a pipeline can be easily changed based on the application 2 it allows for having multiple instances of a given module running in a given stage of the pipeline this allows for parallelism over and beyond what the pipeline already provides 3 it provides a well defined mechanism for startup and shutdown of a pipeline and includes housekeeping and cleanup mechanisms provided via master_monitor 4 it allows the application control over the amount of network bandwidth it wants to take advantage of it is easily possible to take complete advantage of a wide band transport mechanism simply by increasing the number of network agents 5 it provides built in scheme for fairness among modules in other words no single module can retain all the input buffers or no single instance of a multi stage module can keep the.