# Ziti Edge Router General Questions **URL:** \ **Category:** General Questions\ **Created:** [April 27, 2023, 11:17am UTC](https://openziti.discourse.group/t/ziti-edge-router-general-questions/1221 "2023-04-27T11:17:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![TheLumberjack](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/openziti.discourse.group/thelumberjack/32/113_2.png) [@TheLumberjack](https://openziti.discourse.group/u/TheLumberjack)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2023, 11:46am UTC](https://openziti.discourse.group/t/ziti-edge-router-general-questions/1221/2 "2023-04-27T11:46:04Z")
> [@jruiz94](#): > > I was wondering, what is the difference between a private and public edge router A recent discourse post is highly relevant for this question. They happened to be using satellite internet and wanted to make sure local traffic was secure without having to rendezvous off the local network (sound familiar?!? 🙂 ). See [this discourse post](https://openziti.discourse.group/t/create-private-router-on-linux-machine/1164) for the whole thread. The most relevant bit to me was the basic design: [![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/netfoundry/original/1X/523b098e73d90056dd8e39f0a6299a351b0d1a25.png) ](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/netfoundry/original/1X/523b098e73d90056dd8e39f0a6299a351b0d1a25.png) So with this setup, they can access all their _local_ network machine via OpenZiti as well and not have to pay the latency price of leaving the home network (which is probably way higher with satellite than either you or I experience). Also, zero trust extends even onto your home network imo! Well, it _should_ anyway, particularly if you're adding any IoT type devices. So yes, what you're planning makes perfect sense indeed. > [@jruiz94](#): > > And as a final question, are there any tutorials on how to deploy these new edge routers with Docker Compose? I'll give this a run now and make sure I can connect two routers together using nothing but docker/compose! 🙂 I'll post back in a bit. --- _[View the full topic](https://openziti.discourse.group/t/ziti-edge-router-general-questions/1221)._