Applying new standards in traditional networks is slow and injecting new protocols to nodes is not possible. Some services need operations in network elements to perform correctly and efficiently. Active networks solve these problems providing opportunities for new services to appear. Most developed Active Networks are general platforms wherein the performance is traded for gaining security and portability. Moreover, programmers need to learn new skills to develop codes for these platforms. Transferring data flows properly is the main purpose of network elements. For this purpose, some features like routing, security and QOS are developed in these elements. Therefore most operations at nodes are operations that are applied to data flows. With respect to importance of operations applied to data flows and problems in traditional networks for processing data flows, or injecting new protocols, and to extend the use of Active Networks; in this project we try to implement an especial purpose Active Networks which is simple to use in typical networks with little overhead.. IUTAN project is a special platform for processing data flows in network nodes. Its main purposes are reducing complexity, improving performance, and simplifying programming. This platform supplies some features for managing and monitoring network flows. There is no need to use extra tools to program active codes in this platform. Although the main goal of this project is data flow management but the platform in general have the capability to be used for various other purposes.
