A router can be termed a common type of “information gateway”. It is present where two or more networks meet at each point of presence (PoP), on the internet. It can be a physical or a virtual apparatus that passes data and information between two or more “packet-switched” computer networks.
Routers check the destination Internet Protocol (IP Address) of a data packet and then calculate the optimum route for it to reach its destination and then forward it accordingly.
Routing can be defined as a process whereby data is channeled from a different number of input ports to designated ports which then transmit it to its allocated destination. The equipment that handles the input data is referred to as a “network switch”. The data entering point of data is called the ingress point, whereas data transmitting out of the port is called “egress”. Switch basically represents the go-through medium that routes the data to its intended.
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