systems and methods include providing a router that may be deployed as multiple logical routers that share a common fast interconnect . these logical routers may functionally serve as core routers , peering routers , aggregation routers , etc . a further aspect of the system and methods is that the resources assigned to a logical router are allocated from a pool potentially including multitude of hardware cards . a further aspect of the system and methods is that a logical router may be independently managed by the owner of the router or by an owner of the logical router .