Network Router

Many businesses and educational organizations now require the assistance of a Network Router to allow communication between their different sectors.

What is it?

A router enables multiple networks to interact with one another to form a Local Area Network (LAN) or across a global area in a Wide Area Network (WAN). Not only does it connect networks it is able to allocate peripherals devices such as printers to their own position in the network. Additionally, an ISP network is also able to be connected through a router allowing all networks to share internet access.

How Does it Work?

A router’s job is to forward along data packets to the correct networks. It does this by examining the packet headers against its routing table to determine the correct and best path for each packet it has received.

A wireless network router is no different in functionally to a Network Router. The only difference is that a wireless network router doesn’t need to have a physical connection to a device. Instead the connection is made through the use of wireless antennas.

Why use it?

As mentioned at the beginning, dividing a business/company into multiple networks (one for each sector) is good practice.

Ideally, each sector should only be concerned about itself and its data should be kept separate. By separating each sector in different networks through the aid of a router it is possible to improve network security to each sector’s data by denying access to users from outside its own network.

Additionally, if a problem arises in another network it would be isolated to that network and would not impact the performance of other networks. Furthermore, it is possible to share resources such as printers across networks.

As a consequence, it will also improve network robustness and its scalability. It is necessary to add a Network Router when wanting to connect two or more networks together.

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