Black Box 7000 T1/E1 manual Features, Overview

FEATURES

•Make the most of your network with wire-speed bidirectional full-duplex throughput.

•Faster and less expensive than comparable Cisco routers.

•Aggregate speeds of up to 3.088 Mbps over T1 or 16.384 over E1.

•Inexpensive midrange standalone models are available.

•4- and 8-port rackmount enterprise models for E1 are also available.

Use 2- and 4-port midrange routers to access a WAN from main and branch offices.

Series 7000 Router,

Midrange 2-Port

(LR1102A-T1)

Main office

Series 7000 Router,

Midrange 4-Port

(LR1104A-E1)

Series 7000 Router,

Midrange 2-Port

(LR1102A-T1)

WAN

Branch office

OVERVIEW

Suppose you want to connect various branch offices to a WAN. Or your enterprise network might need Internet access. If you’re considering purchasing or currently using a Cisco router, your network may not be running at its optimum speed.

Tired of sub-wire-speed performance? Don’t want to spend the money for costly hardware upgrades? Eliminate sub-wire- speed performance and on-site hardware upgrades, plus

do away with decreased bandwidth with Series 7000 T1/E1 Routers from Black Box.

These routers provide Internet access for enterprise networks or WAN access to branch offices, or they work in service provider sites.

In a typical T1 or E1 network, data is transferred over T1 or E1 cables at speeds of 1.544 or 2.048 Mbps, respectively.

But with Series 7000 Routers, multilink bonding optimizes bandwidth across multiple circuits. Here’s how it works: The router combines up to eight lines into one integrated circuit to provide up to 16.384 Mbps for E1.

And even with all of its enhanced services enabled (details on page 3), the router still gives you fast throughput and data transmission—great when you need more bandwidth than standard T1 or E1 can provide, but aren’t ready to upgrade to T3 or E3. Purchasing a T1 or E1 router lets you improve WAN

Branch office

access performance, availability, and scalability without upgrading or replacing your existing equipment.

An important router feature is its firewall capability.

A firewall guards your network from interfering networks by using security to control internal and external access to data. It works closely with the router services to determine whether to forward traffic onto its destination.

Firewalls are ideal for secure site-to-site communications, remote access, and parameter security. They provide an integrated platform for WAN access routing and security, while maintaining wire-speed performance.

The routers offer more security features, too. Multilevel passwords keep your network secure, as does the firewall with SPI (stateful packet inspection).

The router also supports Frame Relay applications.

Layer 2 switching allows for all routing at the core, enables you to extend Ethernet over WAN, retains VLAN over the WAN, provides high performance, is protocol independent, and is easy to configure. Layer 2 also provides Quality of Service (QoS) based on IP, Port, VLAN ID, and DSCP.

Layer 3 routing enables you to route RIP/OSPF/BG, provides VRRP, QoS, and radius/TACACS+. Plus, there’s no memory to add, just a software key to upgrade. It also gives your network high performance.

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