Guide to router purchase for flying fish STAR Internet cafe

I. Status Quo of Internet cafe gateway devices
Internet cafes are cultural and entertainment places based on the Internet. The Internet is the lifeline of Internet cafes! However, many Internet cafe owners lack network-related technical knowledge and are often passive and blind in the selection of gateway devices. In the early days, most Internet cafe owners lacked technical knowledge about gateway devices due to their small scale of Internet cafes. Therefore, the selection of routers tends to favor SOHO-level "low-end routers ". Recently, with the rapid development of the Internet cafe industry, the expansion of the Internet cafe scale and the wide range of network applications, the original SOHO-level "low-end router" has limited equipment carrying capacity, it is far from able to meet its application requirements. In turn, Internet cafe owners only have to use an ordinary PC as the proxy server and share the Internet through the old-fashioned proxy server. However, the proxy server still has the following problems:

Poor Stability: The general operating system is bulky and well-developed. For the sake of system compatibility, the performance of various applications running on it will inevitably be greatly affected, and it is difficult to optimize the performance to the maximum extent.

Low Reliability: if the general hardware platform is not strictly tested and matched, the reliability and performance are both problems.

Weak security: the main weakness of proxy server security comes from the use of general operating systems. The proxy server should not only prevent attacks from external networks, but also prevent the impact of hacker tools and IP address conflicts in the intranet. Due to the versatility of its operating system and hardware platform, its security risks and various vulnerabilities are constantly discovered. The Network Access Service is built on such a system, and its security performance is difficult to improve, it also adds a lot of work to the overall network security management.

Poor management: the maintenance of the operating system, security rules, and related or unrelated applications on the general platform is closely related to the maintenance of the proxy server. However, Internet cafe administrators are often difficult to master systems and related applications, and have limited maintenance and management capabilities.

For the trust of traditional vro brands in some large Internet cafes, traditional enterprise vrouters at the middle and low ends are directly used. The disadvantage of this method is that the price is expensive and tens of thousands of yuan, but in fact the processing capability is limited and cannot meet the high data throughput requirements of Internet cafes, so many Internet cafe owners who want to buy money with confidence are worried. The various optional narrowband interfaces provided by traditional routers are useless in Internet cafes, which can be said to be a waste. This type of router configuration is complex and difficult for non-professional personnel.

2. Requirements for Internet cafe gateway devices

At present, Internet cafes are gradually showing their chain and scale development trends, and the competition in the internet cafe industry is becoming increasingly fierce. To a large extent, the stability, security, and smoothness of Internet cafes also determine the space for the survival and development of Internet cafes.

On the surface, Internet cafes generally have dozens to hundreds of nodes, but their nodes are often browsed, chatted, downloaded, VOD, and online games at the same time, the network traffic is very large, especially the outbound traffic of the gateway device. Customers who consume in Internet cafes have different requirements and wide application scope. This also determines that Internet cafes have the following requirements for gateway devices:

Strong forwarding capabilities: strong data processing and forwarding capabilities, and fast and smooth network. Gateway devices maintain low network latency and high network throughput in the case of big data traffic. In the traditional sense, this is not a card, not a card, or a network disconnection.
Stable Operation: with high stability and reliability, the gateway device can work continuously for a long time to ensure normal operation of Internet cafes.
Secure and reliable: provides good defense capabilities for Network Worms, gateway address conflicts, and malicious attacks to prevent unexpected attacks to the maximum extent, effectively protecting the normal network applications of Internet cafes.
Easy to use: easy to install, easy to configure, easy to manage, and easy to use. The user debugging management interface is user-friendly and easy to use.
Good compatibility: gateway devices must be highly compatible and can be widely used for access services of different lines.
Practical highlights: provides rich practical highlights to meet the actual network application needs of Internet cafes.
Good service: it has a good online and offline after-sales service system and can provide effective technical support and high-quality after-sales service for Internet cafes in a timely and fast manner.

To sum up, we can sum up the requirements of Internet cafes for gateway devices into three words: stable, fast, and cost-effective. That is, the network is stable, secure, and reliable. The network is fast, accessible, and smooth, saving time, worry, and worry-free.

3. Selection of Internet cafe gateway devices

How do I select a router suitable for the Internet cafe environment?

The Internet bar industry focuses on identifying its own needs. The performance and functions of various broadband routers on the market are different, and their applicability are different. In addition, different environments have different requirements. If you choose blindly, it will not only cause waste in expenditure and maintenance, it may also have a negative impact on Internet performance and information security.

Selection analysis:

Internet cafe scale:

The size of the Internet cafe also determines the performance requirements of the gateway device when the internet cafe is in normal use. Generally, an internet cafe with more than 40 servers requires a stable, secure, and high-speed network. When selecting a vro, consider it carefully.
Compare the relevant performance parameters with the following parameters:
Device carrying capacity: hardware configuration.
Concurrent Data connection capability: million records.

Comprehensive application:

High-speed content Caching: for Internet cafes with limited network bandwidth, gateway devices with high-speed content caching can effectively improve network bandwidth utilization and minimize Wan bandwidth congestion, the Wan bandwidth usage is optimized to improve the network response time and service quality, speed up web page browsing, and make full use of network bandwidth resources to achieve smooth and smooth online game access.
Forced DNS Cache: Most domain name resolution requests are completed locally to speed up response and optimize Wan bandwidth usage. The client can still obtain the best domain name resolution speed when the Domain Name Server address is set incorrectly.

Note: More device selection and analysis will be detailed in the next period.

Here, I would like to recommend several dedicated gateway devices for Internet cafes-"flying fish Star High-speed cache Access Server", which is not just a layer-3 router, it works on three and seven layers, so it is called "high-speed cache Access Server ".

Flying Fish star VOLANS-1200 high speed cache Access Server
Product reviews:
"An entry-level flying fish star cache access product, suitable for small-scale lan use 80 clients), but can also get the same reliability, stability and good technical support services for VOLANS-1000 products"

Flying Fish star VOLANS-1600 high speed cache Access Server
Product reviews:
"If you have a LAN of 120 clients, it would be better to have a VOLANS-1600 with the flying fish star content cache engine! !" The high-speed content cache capacity of feiyuxing is 252 MB.

Flying Fish star VOLANS-1650 high speed cache Access Server
Product reviews:
"With the same three-tier forwarding capabilities as the VOLANS-1850, outstanding performance! It is particularly suitable for some scenarios where the bandwidth is relatively rich and the requirements for web page caching are not high. However, there are many Intranet clients and high requirements on the forwarding capability of routing devices. It also requires good maintainability, users with limited device budgets! It is suitable for a LAN with more than 150 machines ."

Flying Fish star VOLANS-1850 high speed cache Access Server
Product reviews:
"As a VOLANS-1000 type of top-level products, with 1000 Series Products Price, 2000 type product performance, if your LAN scale in more than 150 sets, and no other module requirements, this device is not suitable!" The high-speed content cache capacity of feiyuxing is 252 MB.

Flying Fish star VOLANS-2602 high speed cache Access Server
Product reviews:
"It is most suitable for residential areas, schools, or local networks with around 300 clients. It has built-in high-speed cache, So that you no longer have to worry about equipment upgrades due to network expansion, and the price is reasonable!" The high-speed content cache capacity of feiyuxing is 252 MB.

Flying Fish star VOLANS-2605 high speed cache Access Server
Product reviews:
"You want to achieve better network performance. The large page cache capacity can fully meet your requirements. I heard your customer say," the network speed is fast !" !" The high-speed content cache capacity of feiyuxing is 504 MB.

The above LAN scale value is the number of computers that meet the needs of normal network applications in a dedicated network bar environment. This ensures that the network bandwidth resources can be used in a normal internet cafe network application environment, this is not the so-called "number of hosts" or "maximum allowed number of hosts ".

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