Router

A router is a device used to connect networks together, for example so that several PCs can share one internet connection. A relative of thehub, but more powerful.

Also it’s a special-purpose computer that handles the connection between 2 or more Packet-Switchednetworks. Routers spend all their time looking at the source and destination addresses of thepackets- passing through them and deciding which route to send them on.

Sources:

Dictionary of Computer and Internet Terms (Vol. 1) John C. Rigdon, 2016 – 1471 c. – 1090