Core router

Core router

A core router is a specialized router that operates in the core layer of a network, specifically in the Internet backbone. It is designed to support multiple communication interfaces of the fastest speed and is capable of forwarding IP packets at full speed on all of them. Its primary function is to route and distribute data packets within a single network or small parts of a corporate network.From: Efficient resource management techniques in cloud computing environment: a review and discussion [2019], Cybersecurity Fundamentals [2020]

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Published in Kutub Thakur, Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, Cybersecurity Fundamentals, 2020

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The core router is a central router within a network and maintains the information of an entire network within the boundaries of a network. Any external packet is handed over to the edge router for distribution in the global cloud. The core router routes and distributes the data packets within the single network or small parts of the corporate network.

Efficient resource management techniques in cloud computing environment: a review and discussion

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Published in International Journal of Computers and Applications, 2019

Frederic Nzanywayingoma, Yang Yang

The aggregation switch in the aggregation layer forwards traffic from multiple ToR switches to the core layer. A core router in core layer is a router designed to operate in the Internet backbone and must support multiple communication interfaces of the fastest speed and must be able to forward IP packets at full speed on all of them. It monitors communication channels between internal networks and external networks to prevent risks on external networks from affecting internal networks. Load balancers receive data traffic and increase effective network bandwidth by distributing network connection requests to multiple servers using a distribution algorithm. A server is a computer program running to serve the requests of other programs, the “clients” such as sharing data, information or hardware and software resources (i.e. file server, mail server, print server, web server, application server, so on.)

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