How to choose a suitable private router for your own network?

Today, we will introduce some suitable vrouters for internet bars. After learning about the needs of Internet cafes and the networking process of Internet cafes, you will have a comprehensive understanding of the router selection. With the rapid increase in the number of Internet users in China, various Internet cafes have sprung up. Internet cafes attract more and more Internet users with a comfortable and loose Internet access environment and high-speed and convenient Internet access services. At the same time, the number of Internet users showed a high-speed growth trend, the Internet cafe business model has been accepted by the majority of users. From the initial several computers to the current scale of dozens, hundreds, or even hundreds of thousands of computers.

High-quality services rely on the hardware devices of Internet cafes, mainly including hosts and network devices. network devices are the core of the entire Internet cafe. In order to survive the fierce competition, for Internet cafe operators, selecting a set of network equipment with good quality, low overall cost, and good service is the first consideration for Internet cafe operators. Recently, a friend plans to open a medium-sized Internet cafe, So I designed the following solution.

Internet cafe networking Requirements Analysis

With the increase in Internet users' horizons and interests, the demand for Internet users is constantly increasing, from simple web browsing to QQ chat, VOD on demand, online games, education and training, and financial services, online sales and IP Phone numbers have become top priorities for Internet cafe owners to provide high-quality services for Internet users. Not long ago, Chinese well-known network equipment manufacturer Alpha company launched a rack-mounted Broadband Router for Internet cafes new product-AFR-R1604. The vro uses an Intel IXP network processor with a clock speed of 533 MHz, providing a powerful hardware platform for stable system operation.

More importantly, the AFR-R1604 uses Alpha's unique "dual-core CPU" game acceleration system, breaking through the long-term technical bottleneck of Software Acceleration only, to bring you extraordinary online game experience, make sure that your online games are smooth and easy to use! All those who know about Internet cafes may know that as online games and online movies rapidly increase, the data exchange pressure on routers is getting higher and higher, which puts higher requirements on the CPU of the dedicated router for internet bars, and the CPU used by the AFR-R1604 as high as 533MHz clock speed can completely bear such an important task.

Actual networking process

1. We chose Alpha R1604 as the router and the dedicated router for the network bar. This product not only has powerful firewall functions, this Broadband Router for Internet cafe users also supports IP address filtering, domain name filtering, MAC address filtering, content filtering, and security logs, and provides port-based security, packet filtering, and other functions for governance. The administrator can also use the filter function to prevent Internet access for specific internal users. The administrator can remotely manage and upgrade the Internet to support the storage and recovery of configuration files of the dedicated router for the Internet, it is convenient for users to manage vrouters to the maximum extent. Alpha net-grade rack-mounted router AFR-R1604 with up to 1024 machines.

Another function of this dedicated router is to prevent attacks, AFR-R1604 for the Internet/enterprise network to provide a powerful security protection, it supports internal/external attack prevention, provides protection against scanning attacks, DoS attacks, suspicious packets, and packets containing IP addresses, it can detect and block packet eavesdropping, IP Address Spoofing, source route attacks, IP address scanning, port scanning, DoS and other network attacks, effectively preventing Nimda, shock wave and other virus attacks.

2. Switch. Because the products of the same brand do not have compatibility problems, we chose Alpha products for switches, network cards, and other devices. Alpha AFS-t2224 Gigabit Switch is an excellent product designed for the smooth transition from a 10-Gigabit LAN to a gigabit lan. This switch provides 24 10/100 Mbps adaptive Ethernet ports, two 10/100/1000 Mbps adaptive Gigabit Ethernet ports. All ports support parallel/cross-line automatic identification, which can be used as common ports or Uplink backbone cascade ports, the customer can retain the original MB network wiring.

3. A 10/100 Mbit/s Nic. The Alpha A8 Nic uses the Realtek8139D chip and is a high-performance M Adaptive 32-bit PCI Fast Ethernet card. It fully complies with the PCI22.2 bus specification. the card can automatically switch between 10BASE-T and 100BASE-TX, automatically identify and adjust the transmission mode and speed (full/half duplex, 10 M/100 M ). It also supports remote startup and other functions.

Features of the entire Networking Solution

First, the setup process is very simple.

Many foreign brands of vrouters for internet bars use the English operating interface and use command line configuration. This will undoubtedly make it difficult for technicians who are not good at English. At the same time, such a complicated setup process is too complicated for average technical staff. Therefore, once an internet cafe encounters a problem, it can only be solved by the manufacturer's after-sales personnel, but this will delay time and cost money. The AFR-R1604 is completely different, it provides a Chinese Web configuration interface, intuitive and convenient to set up, at the same time support CLI configuration, for the network professionals to provide a convenient and efficient way of governance. It also supports external Syslog server record information and provides free Syslog server software to help network administrators monitor networks, complete network security governance tasks, and ensure enterprise network security.

Second: high comprehensive cost-effectiveness

All those who are familiar with the vro market know that many medium-sized Internet cafes usually use vrouters of tens of thousands of yuan. The AFR-R1604 is completely different, it is not only powerful, stable performance, and the original price is only 2400 yuan. Now we are in the sales promotion, and we are cheaper than RMB 300. We only need RMB 2100 to purchase it.

Third: Easy LAN upgrade

Although our design is for a medium-sized Internet cafe, but because the maximum number of AFR-R1604 with machines is 1024, so reserved for upgrading equipment. The Alpha AFS-t2224 switch also reserved the upgrade solution, it is an excellent product designed for users to smoothly transition from a hundred Gigabit LAN to a gigabit LAN, two 10/100/1000 Mbps adaptive Gigabit Ethernet ports can be used as common ports or Uplink backbone cascade ports. The above is the design scheme made by the author for friends of Internet cafes, which adopts the AFR-R1604 Firewall Router set professional firewall and high performance broadband network bar dedicated router in one, not only saves the internet cafe/enterprise network investment, it simplifies enterprise network governance and provides complete, secure, economic, and efficient network solutions for large enterprises and Internet cafes.