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There are thousands of industrial networking equipment, and figuring out the needs is the key. Industrial networking equipment seems to have similar functions, but they can work quite differently! Today, we will introduce the most common equipment: how to choose industrial gateways and industrial routers.
Actually, industrial gateways and Industrial routers are similar, both of them are applied for networking of various industries mechanical equipment.
What is the difference?
The difference is that they have their own strengths to correspond different needs.
By forwarding IP data, industrial router helps mechanical equipment connect to network in order to achieve the purpose of data transmission. At the same time, it provides a variety of networking ways and network security functions, such as OSPF, VPN, firewall, hierarchical user authority management, and so on. The router solves the problem of network data transmission security and protects business data security in an effective way..
Industrial router can use 4G cellular network to help you access the network quickly and conveniently, and provide link fault forwarding function for the business site in the meantime. When the network link encounters a problem, it can automatically switch to another stable network link. Double protection, double assurance!
And what is an industrial gateway?
After telling industrial router, let's move to industrial gateway. There are two types of industrial gateways: transparent transmission gateway and cloud gateway.
The transparent transmission gateway can quickly convert serial port data into IP data, focusing more on convenient and fast information transmission. It is compact, easy to install, remotely configurable and stable and reliable.
Just like what we often hear, edge computing gateway are both cloud gateways.
Edge computing gateway can process data while transmitting data. It has an open edge computing platform, supports users to to secondary development. It realizes data optimization at the edge of the Internet of Things and effectively share cloud load, real-time response, agile connection, and intelligent analysis.
In Conclusion
Since gateways and routers perform completely different functions, both are important for a network. A gateway serves as a single access point and a converter to connect dissimilar networks using different protocols, while a router sets the shortest path for the data packets to travel from source to destination.
