Teknologi Router

GENERASI	KETERANGAN
1	Forwarding terpusat, pertukaran bus (antar muka berupa hardware melalui bus antar CPU)
2	Penerus generasi pertama, ditambah pada fokus didistribusikan forwarding, modul antarmuka, pertukaran bus
3	Forwarding didistribusikan, pertukaran bus
4	Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) didistribusikan forwarding, pertukaran jaringan
5	Prosesor jaringan terdistribusi forwarding, pertukaran jaringan, Router bisnis ( VPN, Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), IP-QoS, Multicast, Protocol Security dll )