The official answer: commodity hardware doesn't handle all the features needed at "line rate". The (more often than not) unofficial answer: using a custom platform raises the entry barrier for cloning/abuse/etc. It's a bit hard to run your appliance MIPS software on an off-the-shelf PC; but it (used) to be possible to run PIX software on a PC (and in a VM too, IIRC.) Fun times, Adrian On Sun, Jul 25, 2010, Tarig Yassin wrote:
Dear all
Greetings
I'm wondering why the software based router is not preferable in business even if they have high featured Processers, and high capcity of memory.
What is the main deferent between Appliance router and Software based routers?
thank you all in adavance.
-- Tarig Y. Adam
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