While current research in scheduled routing has assumed multiprocessors with a single application at a time, this restriction is not absolute. Multiple applications and multiple users can share a scheduled network by allocating portions of each router to each application. The network will be timesliced along with the applications themselves, with a context switch on the processor accompanied by a context switch of the scheduled router. Direct access to the physical hardware would be mediated by some combination of hardware support (as in FUGU [47]) and operating-system support (as is done in the Exokernel [22]). The resulting multitasking system should provide similar gains to each process as could be found on a single-tasking system, though for each additional task, the smaller amount of router memory available per-task would cause extra reload time (as is discussed in Section 5.4).