Detailed explanation of soft routing technology-development history of soft Routing Technology

This article mainly gives you a detailed introduction to the development process of the soft routing technology. What exactly is the soft routing? What is its main application field? What are the defects? The following article will give you a detailed answer.

With the development of China's routing industry, the application of soft routing technology is also more extensive. Here we mainly introduce the development process of soft routing technology. 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, you must use a router as long as you communicate over the network. 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, a soft route replaces a regular physical router with a software simulated 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 term "soft routing" has already appeared in the network industry, but it has not been widely used because of the soft routing technology. Even now, there are only a few enterprises that use the 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. There is no major difference between soft routing and traditional routing devices in terms of performance and functionality. If you buy 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 improvement of the soft routing 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.