A network router plays a crucial role in how data packets travel to and from a computer to host across the Internet. Routers serve as the junction point between the computers in a network and an ...

Routers accept data packets and forward them to a list of destinations it knows about. These destinations can be other routers, or the intended destination of a computer communicating through the ...

Routing is the process of determining where to send data packets that are destined for addresses outside the local network. Routers gather and maintain routing information to enable the transmission ...

In a recent article for the IEEE’s Spectrum magazine, Dr. Lawrence Roberts explains how the large routers that power the core of today’s Internet are doing it all wrong. They spend too much time ...

Delivering quality-of-service (QoS) in packet-switched networks requires sorting the packets into traffic classes and ensuring that each class of traffic receives an appropriate share of ...