Routers

Word ROUTERS
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Definitions and meanings of "Routers"

What do we mean by routers?

Someone who routes or directs items from one location to another.

Any device that directs packets of information using the equivalent of Open Systems Interconnection layer 3 (network layer) information. Most commonly used in reference to Internet Protocol routers.

A device that connects local area networks to form a larger internet by, at minimum, selectively passing those datagrams having a destination IP address to the network which is able to deliver them to their destination; a network gateway.

(electronic design automation) In integrated circuit or printed circuit board design, an algorithm for adding all wires needed to properly connect all of the placed components while obeying all design rules.

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The word "routers" in example sentences

The actual building and distribution of their routers is outsourced to supplier firms who have to follow Cisco's standards. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If even one of these routers is congested or experiencing problems, a lower level of performance is reported. ❋ Unknown (2003)

If an Internet service provider turns off its "routers" - powerful computers that relay Internet data - then traffic is halted. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Cisco Internetworking Glossary reflected a planned merger between Cisco, who called their routers "routers", and Synoptics, in which router and hub technology would join in a device to be called the "Rubsystem", which, presumably, made sense to the marketing staff in California. ❋ Unknown (2008)

20: 30 @StephanieBamBam With certain routers UPnP in Azureus can cause the router to get confused and lock up. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Juniper's share of revenue from sales of networking devices known as routers and switches grew to 18.7% and an estimated 2.3% respectively in the fourth quarter of 2010, from 18.3% and 0.6% in the same period in 2008, according to research firm Dell'Oro Group. ❋ Cari Tuna (2011)

A decade ago Cisco was known for building the switching systems (called routers) that find the most efficient path for information on the Internet. ❋ Unknown (2009)

So companies like Digital Envoy, Quova and Akamai Technologies refine that database, tracing data packets as they zip through "traffic cops" known as routers, thus narrowing the actual location of each address. ❋ Unknown (2004)

If the fibre optic cables are like a multilane highway, then the routers are the traffic circles that allow cars to leave that highway and choose another route. ❋ Unknown (2000)

The special computers that perform this function are called routers, and you can think of them as forming many different bucket brigades spanning continents and oceans, moving buckets full of electronic postcards from one router to another, until the postcards reach their destination. ❋ ITY National Archives (1999)

Rather than focus on the traditional targets of hacker attacks -- websites, databases of information or personal computers -- Schuchard imagined an attack on the middle of the Internet, made up of devices called routers. ❋ Unknown (2011)

A packet of data traveling across the Internet, for instance, passes through a series of devices called routers before it reaches its destination. ❋ Media-newswire.com (2010)

The subnet consists of transmission links and switching elements (commonly called routers). [email protected](networkingcentral (2010)

The "hotzone" is an extra-large area of Wi-Fi coverage, served by multiple routers, which is free for AT&T customers to use with any 802.11b/g compatible device. ❋ Dylan F. Tweney (2010)

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