Summary
Recent trends and technological developments have reinforced the criticality of routing in future networks. Routing, as a function, is maturing. Rather than this maturation being evidenced by a decline in its usefulness, routing's maturity is characterized by an increase in its use! Specifically, many of the new technologies being developed take the basic concept of routing, enhance it in some way, and then proliferate routing even further throughout the network. Today, routing technologies are being used to do things that were beyond the capabilities of traditional hardware- based routers.
These specialized routing products include multilayer switches, increasingly powerful and feature-rich hardware-based routers, and an endless series ...
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