Creative Crop/Photodisc/Getty Images. Definition: Routers are small physical devices that join multiple networks together. Technically, a router is a Layer 3 gateway device, meaning that it connects two or more networks and that the router operates at the network layer of the OSI model.ome networks typically use a wireless or wired Internet Protocol (IP) router, IP being the most common OSI network layer protocol. An IP router such as a DSL or cable modem broadband router joins the home's local area network (LAN) to the wide-area network (WAN) of the Internet.
St. Louis, Missouri. Midwestern traditional basketball cities without NBA teams, Take Two. St. Louis is the third-largest metro area without an NBA team, after Seattle and San Diego. As Kansas City is the traditional seat of Big Eight basketball, so too is St. Louis with the Missouri Valley Conference.
Madison Square Garden is one of only two NBA arenas to not be named after a corporate sponsor; The Palace of Auburn Hills, home of the Detroit Pistons, is the other. It will become the only NHL arena not named after a corporate sponsor when the Detroit Red Wings move into Little Caesars Arena for the 2017-18 season.