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.
The Utah Jazz are an American professional basketball team based in Salt Lake City, Utah. The Jazz compete in the National Basketball Association as a member club of the league's Western Conference Northwest Division. Since 1991, the team has played its home games at Vivint Smart Home Arena. The franchise began play in 1974 as the New Orleans Jazz, an expansion team based in New Orleans; the Jazz moved to Salt Lake City in 1979. The Jazz were one of the least successful teams in the league in th