Appliance Vs Software based routers

Jack Bates jbates at brightok.net
Sun Jul 25 07:31:46 UTC 2010


Tarig Yassin wrote:
> What is the main deferent between Appliance router and Software based routers?

I believe the main difference is the ability to handle features at line 
rate speeds. The more interfaces/speed + CoS/ACL, the harder it is for a 
software based router to keep up.


Jack




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