Differences between 4g enterprise router and SOHO router

A SOHO router is a broadband router built and marketed for small offices and home offices. Since the workload for these types of businesses is primarily on the internet, they require a local area network (LAN), which means their network hardware is structured specifically for that purpose. A SOHO network can be a mixed network of wired and wireless computers.

As we know, the devices mainly cover threegrade, that is SOHOgrade, Industrialgrade and Militarygrade.  Eachgrade has its own application requirement. The SOHOgrade modem and router don’t meet the requirements of the industrial environment and standard entirely because of it is designed for office automation. Mainly differences are the below:

1. Control

The SOHOgrade is simple design for internet use. People no need control it very often.
The industrialgrade is designed mainly for industrial applications. People need control it quite often, even 7*24 hours.

2. Stable, reliable and robust
SOHOgrade features are simply. It is mainly used for internet surfing, which is installed in house. People can check and assist it in time. With cost requirement, SOHOgrade design and development will not care too much for the stability and reliability. The industrialgrade cares the stability and reliability very much because it’s mainly installed under people’ touch. In another world, it should be working for 7*24 hours without people assist. So the industrialgrade must have good reliability, recoverability, and maintainability in the production environment at the same time. It is a guarantee that it will not lead the collapse of applications, operating system even the network when any component failure occurs in a network system.

3. The security issues
Lots of fields exist inflammable, explosive or toxic gases inevitably in the process of industrial production, and there must have some certain explosion-proof technology for the intelligent devices and communication equipment which can ensure the safety of industrial field. It is much more practical to add explosion-proof and explosion-proof measures in the Ethernet system under the condition of current technology, namely the ignition energy which caused by the devices problem will not leak through increasing explosion-proof measures to the Ethernet field devices, which can ensure the safety of running system. For those dangerous situation where is no strict safety requirements, you can not consider complex explosion-proof measures.  
The network safety of industrial system is another security issue must be considered at the industrial Ethernet applications. 4g enterprise rouuter can make the traditional three layers of the network system, namely, information management layer, process monitoring layer and field equipment layer, an organic whole, which make the faster data transfer, higher real-time and it can integrate with the Internet seamlessly, it realizes data sharing and improves the operational efficiency of the factory. But there is a series of network security problems at the same time, industrial network may under the threat of virus infection, hackers and illegal operation. 

4. The vehicle power supply issues
The vehicle power supply refers to the cable connected to the field devices not only to transmit data signals, but also provide equipment working power supply on-site. The Ethernet hasn’t considered this issue from the design at the beginning, while there are a lot of bus power supply requirements on the industrial site. Because of the above problems, the ordinary commercial Ethernet cannot be applied to the control of industrial field directly. And the industrial Ethernet is produced to solve these problems.

5. Features and performance
The industrialgrade owns much more features and SOHOgrade, such as connection alive monitor and keeping, Dual Sim connection, multi-line redundancy, GPS, Serial ports, VPN networks, high gain and special antenna replacement, etc.

                                                                                                                               Written by Amelie