The Fibre Channel standard was created by the American National Standard for Information Systems X3T11 task group to define a serial IO channel for interconnecting a number of heterogeneous peripheral devices to computer systems as well as interconnecting the computer systems themselves through optical fiber and copper media at gigabit speeds. A plurality of switches is reconfigurable for providing at least two sets of switch functions. Each input data stream is associated with a different track on a magnetic tape medium. Thereafter, or simultaneously with said fetching of the routing information, the radio system forwards the request message to said content provider, which sends a reply message to the mobile station to said request via said radio system. The trench source electrode is shaped like a stripe and connected to the source electrode through its longitudinal portion. A control and select function, such as a switch that is implemented by hardware or software or a combination thereof, is provided in an integrated device to allow the end user of the device to access the local data processing functionality of the device, even while the wireless communication functionality of such device is disabled.