ZyXEL Communications manual Getting to Know Your Prestige, Prestige 100L Idsl Router

Prestige 100L IDSL Router

Chapter 1

Getting to Know Your Prestige

This chapter introduces the main features and applications of the Prestige.

1.1The Prestige 100L IDSL Router

The Prestige 100L is the perfect IDSL Client for the Prestige 1600, offering inexpensive yet complete telecommunications and internetworking solutions for your home or branch office. The Prestige is ideal for everything from Internet access, LAN-to-LAN connections or Remote Access. ZyXEL’s Prestige 100L provides not only ease of installation and Internet access, but also a complete security solution to protect your Intranet and efficiently manage data traffic on your network.

1.2Features of the Prestige 100L

The following are the essential features of the Prestige 100L.

ISDN Digital Subscriber Line (IDSL)

IDSL is a digital subscriber service that uses a subset of the existing ISDN standard. It offers speed up to 128 kbps over a single twisted copper pair wire for distance up to 18,000 feet. Because IDSL uses the same standard as ISDN, users can use the existing ISDN terminal adapters, routers and bridges for IDSL connections. IDSL is the easiest and the least expensive to deploy among DSL technologies since a majority of the local loops are “ISDN-ready” and thus “IDSL-ready” as well.

Full Network Management

The Prestige incorporates SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) support and menu-driven network management via an RS-232C or telnet connection. All functions of the Prestige 100L are also software configurable via the SMT (System Management Terminal) interface. The SMT is a menu-driven interface that you can access from a terminal emulator through the console port or over a telnet connection.

PPP Security

The Prestige supports PAP (Password Authentication Protocol) and CHAP (Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol).

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)

DHCP allows you to assign dynamically and automatically IP address settings to hosts on your network.

Data Compression

The Prestige incorporates Stac Data Compression and Compression Control Protocol.

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