Product Overview
Dlink DRO-210i User Guide 5
1 Product Overview DRO-210i is a part of D-Link's DRO-2XX Business Gateway series, especially designed
as an all-in-one network solution for small and medium businesses. Today's network
infrastructure for small and medium business calls for highly reliable connectivity,
comprehensive security features and high throughput with sophisticated QoS to s upport
Voice/Video over IP. Such a network infrastructure can be implemented with different
boxes, but the cost, performance bottlenecks and interoperability issues make such an
approach impractical. DRO-2XX Business Gateways are a cost-effective, all-in-one-box
solution for converged network infrastructure of small and medium businesses.
Some of the key features of DRO-210i Broadband Business Gateway are:
Dual WAN Connectivity
The router supports Dual Ethernet Ports for xDSL connectivity. xDSL connectivity is
cheap, but more susceptible to outages. With two xDSL links, DRO-210i ensures high
reliability, and also the benefit of double internet capacity.
Converged Network Support
The router provides the following features t o support Data, Voice and Video services
over the same IP Network:
Application Level Gateway support for Voice/Video over IP enables successful
deployment of voice/video equipment by addressing the interoperability issues
with Firewall/NAT devices.
QoS support allows prioritization, bandwidth reservation and upper ceiling for
each class of service. This enables optimal and dynamic utilization of bandwidth,
while guaranteeing voice and video quality.
Secure Remote Management
Administrators can remotely provision the router over a secure SSL-based Web User
Interface. He can also perform remote software upgrades and remote monitoring to
ensure smooth operation of the network.
Self monitoring and Restart
This feature monitors the health of the system and automatically restarts in panic cases,
without a need of intervention from the user; thus ensuring minimal system downtime in
case of failures.
Built-in Hardware accelerator
The router platform uses Intel’s XScale Architecture with on-board hardware crypto
accelerator. The hardware accelerator en ables high-performance VPN connectivity for
branch offices and teleworkers requiring secure access to the corporate network
resources.