The invention relates to a deflection method for deflecting a strip, especially a metal strip, from an initial guide channel to a final guide channel which runs next to said initial guide channel. For distributed scheduling, a relay station may generate and send first channel quality information to a base station and receive second CQI from a subscriber station. The castellations form an electrical connection between the top and bottom surfaces of the substrate. A connection between a virtual compute resource and a local compute resource can be associated with multiple ports and multiple protocol types. The system enables parties to be organized into groups based upon member profiles.