Prestige 652 ADSL Security Router

Chapter 1

Getting To Know Your Prestige

This chapter describes the key features and applications of your Prestige.

1.1Prestige 652 ADSL Security Router

Your Prestige integrates a high-speed 10/100Mbps auto-negotiating LAN interface and a high-speed ADSL port into a single package. The Prestige is ideal for high-speed Internet browsing and making LAN-to-LAN connections to remote networks.

The Prestige provides not only ease of installation and high-speed Internet access, but also a complete security solution. The Prestige 652 combines an ADSL router with a robust firewall and VPN capability.

The web browser-based Graphical User Interface provides easy management and is totally independent of the operating system platform you use.

1.2Features

Your Prestige is packed with a number of features that give it the flexibility to provide a complete networking solution for almost any user.

zHigh Speed Internet Access

Your Prestige can support downstream transmission rates of up to 8Mbps and upstream transmission rates of 832 Kbps. Your Prestige also supports rate management; rate management allows ADSL subscribers to select an Internet access speed that best suits their needs and budgets.

zIPSec VPN Capability

Establish a Virtual Private Network (VPN) to connect with business partners and branch offices using data encryption and the Internet to provide secure communications without the expense of leased site-to-site lines. The Prestige’s VPN is based on the IPSec standard and is fully interoperable with other IPSec-based VPN products.

•Firewall

The Prestige is a stateful inspection firewall with DoS (Denial of Service) protection. By default, when the firewall is activated, all incoming traffic from the WAN to the LAN is blocked unless it is initiated from the LAN. The Prestige firewall supports TCP/UDP inspection, DoS detection and prevention, real time alerts, reports and logs.

Getting To Know Your Prestige

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