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SOHO vs. enterprise

SOHO vs. enterprise

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SOHO vs. enterprise

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- So first of all, let me pardon you for the noise 'cause I've got some pretty heavy metal sitting here. And I want to talk about the idea of SOHO versus enterprise routers. Now, if we talk about a SOHO router, we talk about little devices like this. First of all, this is a router, but it's going to be a gateway router. It's going to have one connection to the internet service provider, and then it's going to have a single connection to your network. Now if you take a look at this guy, you'll notice that he's got like four connections here. The reason he has these connections is not because the router has all these connections. What's happening here is this is a two-port router with a built-in switch. And that way it's easy, you don't have to go buy a switch, you can just plug right into this 'cause it comes with both a router and a switch built into it, even though we still just call it a router. Also a SOHO device like this, most of these come with a built-in wireless access point…

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