A couple weeks ago I spent 5 days at CES (Consumer electronics Show) in Las Vegas where more than 2000 worldwide companies presented the “next new thing” that ranged from OLED TVs to electric cars.

More than 100,000 visitors also came to see where the technology is going. A lot of innovation was displayed everywhere. Since my focus is in networking, I was more interested in the “next new networking thing”. Based on our solid distribution partnership, Draytek invited ABPTech to be part of Draytek’s booth. In addition to my exhibitor role, I had the opportunity to walk the halls as visitor.

Router manufacturers have been constantly innovating and bringing new products to market. New state of the art CPE devices and routers technology have improved enormously in recent years. With the advance of processing power we now see routers that are much more intelligent than their counterparts from last decade. Just like most electronic products, routers are now smaller, more intelligent, more cost efficient and environment friendlier.

The next generation routers brought by Draytek Corp shinned. 4G, Gigabit, fiber and Vdsl interfaces are part of many models. The new breed of routers are designed to better work and allow us to safely take advantage of emergent technologies such as Cloud Based Services, IPV6 and 4G LTE networks.

Routers must have redundant WAN ports for load balancing and failover. Amazing new cloud based applications won’t work if the connection to the Internet is down. Today’s routers must be able to police the bandwidth and kind of traffic or applications running on it. Bandwidth management, true QOS and Web Content Filtering are part of next generation routers to make sure our resources, including employees’ time and network speed, are utilized in benefit of the company.

In addition to the above, other features such as VPN, Firewall, Multi LAN, VLan and WiFi are incorporated into the same box reducing dramatically the energy consumption and clutter in the telecom rack or server room. For multisite deployments a cloud based, centralized management and monitoring interface is desirable.

ABPTech’s upcoming webinar will focus on Draytek’s next generation routers and advanced network features. Join us for our Jan. 26th @ 11:00 AM webinar. We’ll extend a special offer to the webinar attendees.

Henry Castillo