A router is a networking device that forwards data packets between computer networks and performs traffic directing functions on the Internet. It reads address information in packets to determine the destination and uses its routing table to direct packets to the next network. More sophisticated routers connect large business networks to the powerful core routers that forward data at high speeds along the Internet backbone. Future trends may include the use of Li-Fi technology which transmits data using visible light communication through LED bulbs.
A router is a networking device that forwards data packets between computer networks and performs traffic directing functions on the Internet. It reads address information in packets to determine the destination and uses its routing table to direct packets to the next network. More sophisticated routers connect large business networks to the powerful core routers that forward data at high speeds along the Internet backbone. Future trends may include the use of Li-Fi technology which transmits data using visible light communication through LED bulbs.
A router is a networking device that forwards data packets between computer networks and performs traffic directing functions on the Internet. It reads address information in packets to determine the destination and uses its routing table to direct packets to the next network. More sophisticated routers connect large business networks to the powerful core routers that forward data at high speeds along the Internet backbone. Future trends may include the use of Li-Fi technology which transmits data using visible light communication through LED bulbs.
A router is a networking device that forwards data packets between computer networks and performs traffic directing functions on the Internet. It reads address information in packets to determine the destination and uses its routing table to direct packets to the next network. More sophisticated routers connect large business networks to the powerful core routers that forward data at high speeds along the Internet backbone. Future trends may include the use of Li-Fi technology which transmits data using visible light communication through LED bulbs.
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Router
Overview and product history
Overview: A router is a networking device that forwards data packets between
computer networks. Routers perform the traffic directing functions on the Internet. A data packet is typically forwarded from one router to another through the networks that constitute the internetwork until it reaches its destination node.
Product history: The very first device that had fundamentally the same functionality as a router does today was the Interface Message Processor (IMP); IMPs were the devices that made up the ARPANET, the first TCP/IP network. The idea for a router (called "gateways" at the time) initially came about through an international group of computer networking researchers called the International Network Working Group (INWG). Set up in 1972 as an informal group to consider the technical issues involved in connecting different networks, later that year it became a subcommittee of the International Federation for Information Processing.
How does it Work?
A router is connected to two or more data lines from different networks.[b] When a data packet comes in on one of the lines, the router reads the address information in the packet to determine the ultimate destination. Then, using information in its routing table or routing policy, it directs the packet to the next network on its journey. This creates an overlay internetwork.
The most familiar type of routers are home and small office routers that simply pass IP packets between the home computers and the Internet. An example of a router would be the owner's cable or DSL router, which connects to the Internet through an Internet service provider (ISP). More sophisticated routers, such as enterprise routers, connect large business or ISP networks up to the powerful core routers that forward data at high speed along the optical fiber lines of the Internet backbone. Though routers are typically dedicated hardware devices, softwarebased routers also exist.
Structural Diagram
Connections
Information Processing Features
Routing is the process of forwarding IP packets from one network to
another. A router is a device that joins networks together and routes traffic between them. A router will have at least two network cards (NICs), one physically connected to one network and the other physically connected to another network. Basically like a mailman delivering something from one place to another.
