Advantages of Routing
- Overall routing can be done in various ways its important to know requirements and use the one that fits right for our specific needs, hence the automated routing is typically preferred as the routing of packets is done by the algorithms defined and moreover the manually configurable routing can give us a fine grained control over the network.
- Routing is a high scalable operation for transmitting data that is, in a large scale enterprise networks it becomes crucial to manage information related to all the nodes that may be sharing sensitive and confidential information regarding the organization.
- Load Balancing is also one of the crucial aspects taken care of by routing data packets off the routes that are generally busy as sending data through those routes will only put our data at risk of getting lost.
What is Routing?
The process of choosing a path across one or more networks is known as network routing. Any kind of network, including public transit and phone networks, can use the routing principles. Routing chooses the routes along which Internet Protocol (IP) packets get from their source to their destination in packet-switching networks, such as the Internet. Routers are specialized pieces of network hardware that make these judgments about Internet routing.