An out-of-plane microneedle manufacturing process comprises the simultaneous creation of a network of microneedles and the creation of a polygonal shaped hat above each microneedle under formation. The variable length packet switching system includes at least two switching means, a plurality of multiplexing units and a plurality of demultiplexing units. 6, a solid solution of r1r wherein r ranges from about 0. The AAL protocol utilized for the modified ATM cells, termed AAL2 prime, requires that AAL2 packets carried in the ATM cell payload be whole packets and that the ATM payload not have an AAL2-type start field. The database object model can provide the database object hierarchy by utilizing document andor script mechanisms such as, for example, extensible markup language files.