System is the battlefield of intelligent routing competition

The router used to be a behind-the-scenes hero who worked silently, because of its characteristics of the home network hub, slowly being put on the smart hat, by the big Internet big guy in the internet thinking of the transformation, pushed to the screen before, become the spotlight under the new darling, with smart home vision and innovation, Intelligent routing attempts to influence every Internet participant, struggling to brush out the sense of being.

Every day around us is filled with the freshest news, a certain internet giant will also be in the smart route this flag spread chips, so far announced the production of intelligent routing products of the internet giants countless, Lenovo, Millet, Huawei, Lei and so on, there are many quietly exerting small entrepreneurial team is in the dark hard to find "ignition ”。 People say; Intelligent routing configuration is top, function is subversive, plug-ins are massive, the price is cabbage ... But they all secretly did not tell you, the most important system is not the same!

The hardware parameters of intelligent routing are almost unchanged from other configurations and traditional routes of the chip, which is the traditional Clearos,endian,untangle,routeros routing system, which chooses more compatible chips which are more suitable for system development. The most fundamental reason is that intelligent routing systems require in-depth research and development to support more applications and possibilities. It can be said that the biggest difference between intelligent routing and traditional routes is that the operating system is not the same, so you can achieve video ads, offline downloads, single line multicast, intelligent speed limit, MAC address filtering, remote control, such as more advanced intelligent functions. So what is an intelligent routing system?

Intelligent routing system in the daily spoken language more "firmware", to constantly update the firmware, brush the system, so that the router becomes more powerful, like we need to upgrade QQ to the latest version. The relationship between the system and the router is just like the computer and Windowsxp,windows7,ios "spirit" of the relationship, the computer ran fast, the use of shun and the installation of the system has a great relationship. The operation of the router is the same reason, the wireless download speed quickly, look at the video card and routing hardware "shell" no irrelevant, but "inside the shell of the heart" is the key, and intelligent routing system is the "heart"!

At present, the most popular in the domestic market is based on open source OpenWrt system of deep custom research and development of intelligent routing system, and other Vxworks,ecos and other open source systems, China's intelligent routing has been focused on the openwrt body, which is very profound reasons:

1. Stand on the shoulder of the chip. At present, there are so few supply lines from the main control chip (or program), respectively, are Broadcom, Atheros, Marvell and Ralink. Among them, the first two are currently the world's most important wireless router chip program providers, such as the use of Broadcom chip manufacturers include Asus, Buffalo, Linksys, Netgear, the use of Atheros chip manufacturers are mainly TP, Link and so on. Of course, some small brands also use Broadcom or Atheros. In recent years, many of the introduction of a variety of cheap, good compatibility, wireless performance stability, two development requirements of low chips, such as RALINK,MTK, for intelligent routes to provide a pioneering fertile soil, is the so-called standing on the shoulders of giants.

2. Open source is excellent. OpenWrt can be described as an embedded Linux distribution (the mainstream router firmware has dd-wrt,tomato,openwrt three categories) instead of trying to create a single, static system. OPENWRT Package Management provides a fully writable file system, from the application vendor's selection and configuration, and allows you to customize the device to fit any application. OpenWrt can be used in all the places where embedded Linux is needed, it has many functions, such as SSH server, VPN, traffic shaping service, even BitTorrent client.

OpenWrt is an open source project, because the open source system community is very active, openwrt in Europe, America, Russia, the country has a large number of followers, and there are countless branches and code contributors. In this upsurge of intelligent routing innovation, the value of OpenWrt is getting more and more attention. It appears to allow everyone to have an open operating environment, and the Linux software in the first time the support of all, from the stability, high performance can achieve intelligent routing requirements.

Currently on the market has emerged from the OpenWrt system deeply customized intelligent Route brand, 360 safe Route SOS, Millet routing Miwifi, the Hiwifi of the polar route, as well as the current and Lenovo, Thunder reached deep cooperation of the Ruyi cloud routing is threatened: " Ruyi OS to do intelligent routing of Android, visible in its layout and ambitions. Intelligent routing manufacturers are bound to be the development and innovation of the system as the core area, relative to the market to promote the concept of intelligent home has also made a higher demand for intelligent routing system, how to make the routing system compatible, And in other appliances, built-in router-compatible chip software will be the future of intelligent routing system to consider the fatal problem.