A new cultivar of Dianthus named Devon Siskin that is characterized by fragrant red-purple flowers with a distinctive pattern, a compact mounding habit and a long flowering season. The present invention provides mechanisms for establishing and controlling OOB control plane communications. A function approximator and a distance metric are then initialized, where the distance metric computes a distance between points in the input space, and the distance metric is adjusted such that an accuracy measure of the function approximator on the set of exemplars is improved. The example method may also include determining a lowest modified link cost associated with a path between the switches. Also provided herein are vectors and host cells comprising those nucleic acid sequences, chimeric polypeptide molecules comprising the polypeptides of the present invention fused to heterologous polypeptide sequences, antibodies which bind to the polypeptides of the present invention and to methods for producing the polypeptides of the present invention. Finally, the components of the systems that serve to illuminate the wound bed, lend themselves to use in conjunction with illumination in discreet electromagnetic wave wavelengths suitable for the application of phototherapy.