Application Guide: describes the development process of soft Routing Technology

With the development of routing technology, various emerging technologies are also emerging. Soft routing technology is one of them. It mainly uses software to replace our commonly used routers. As we all know, for today's Internet, one of the most critical network devices is a router. No matter who you communicate with or how long it takes and how far it takes, as long as you communicate over the network, you must use a vro.

Any data packet in the network will be forwarded by several routers to reach the destination. Of course, routers also play an irreplaceable role in enterprise networks. Traditional routers are an independent network device in the eyes of the public. enterprise users can purchase them directly from the manufacturer. However, with the expansion of enterprises, the purchase of new routers has become a required course, and idle equipment can only become a collection item in the warehouse. Therefore, the concept of soft routing is gradually noticed by administrators.

In fact, the soft routing technology uses a software simulated router to replace a conventional physical router. It is a routing operating system and needs to use a common computer or server as a carrier to implement the routing function. As early as a few years ago, the terms of soft routing technology have already appeared in the network industry, but they have not been widely used due to technical reasons. Even now, there are only a few enterprises that use soft routing technology. Instead, they were fully utilized in some Internet cafes.

Why is there a soft routing technology? The reason is that it saves money. The performance and functions of the soft routing technology are not much different from those of traditional routing devices. When purchasing a traditional router, there are thousands and tens of thousands. Flexible routing only requires a PC and a soft route operating system of several hundred yuan. In addition, the Administrator only needs to upgrade the PC to meet the needs of the future after the scale of the enterprise is expanded. As the software is updated and improved, the function and perfection are greatly improved, it is not inferior to valuable hardware routers in terms of functions and performance, and its cost effectiveness is very high.

At present, the most widely used field of soft routing technology is Internet cafes, followed by small and medium-sized enterprises. Due to the cost of soft routing, Internet cafe owners only need to purchase a PC with a high configuration during the preliminary purchase, and then purchase a soft routing operating system to implement all the functions of hardware routing, the price is much lower than that of a high-end hardware router. If the performance of the soft route is not strong enough after the Internet cafes expand, you only need to upgrade the PC directly to Improve the Performance without buying a new hardware router. The same applies to small and medium-sized enterprises.

However, soft routing also has its own defects. For example, it needs to be installed in the form of software; it is complicated to configure and requires guidance from professionals; it is highly dependent on PCs. If a PC crashes, its routing function cannot be discussed. Power consumption is also one of its shortcomings. If a fault occurs, it will be difficult to solve the problem.

In general, the advantage of soft routing is very obvious, especially with the decline in the price of the PC machine, the investment costs required for a set of soft routing equipment can be further reduced. Since the entry of the soft routing technology into the market, many new Internet cafes and small and medium-sized enterprises use this technology every year. However, the soft routing technology has not yet reached a perfect level, therefore, large enterprises have almost no courage or confidence to try soft routes. We can believe that with the continuous advancement of technology, soft routing will be widely used in the next few years to replace low-end hardware routers in the market. In addition, developers will also develop a simpler configuration interface for beginners to use, further reducing the investment and management costs of enterprises.