ZyXEL Communications 153X user manual Preface, About Your Bridge/Router

Prestige 153/153X WAN Bridge/Routers

Preface

About Your Bridge/Router

The Prestige 153/153X is a high-performance bridge/router that offers a complete solution for your WAN applications such as Internet access, multi-protocol LAN-to-LAN connections, telecommuting and remote access.

The Prestige 153/153X is a universal router that can connect over PSTN (Public Switch Telephone Network) and ISDN (Integrated Service Digital Network) lines. The Prestige 153/153X supports multi-protocol routing and transparent bridging.

About This User's Manual

This user's manual covers the operations of your Prestige 153 and Prestige 153X. All functions of the Prestige are software configurable via either the SMT (System Management Terminal) Interface or the Java-based Prestige Web Configurator (PWC). This manual concentrates on configuration via the SMT; for details information on PWC, please refer to the Prestige Web Configuration User’s Manual

This manual consists of fourteen chapters to guide you through a correct configuration of your Prestige 153/153X depending on your particular application.

For brevity’s sake, we will use “e.g.” as a shorthand for “for example” and “i.e.” for “that is” or “in other words” throughout this manual.

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