ZyXEL Communications Prestige 642R Series - Manual (Page 28)

Prestige 642R Series ADSL Router
Getting to know your Prestige 1-1
Chapter 1
Getting to Know Your ADSL Internet Access
Router
This chapter describes the key features and applications of the Prestige 642 .
1.1 Prestige 642R Series ADSL Internet Access Router
Your Prestige integrates a high-speed 10/100Mbps auto-negotiating LAN interface and one 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.
1.2 Features of the Prestige 642R
Your Prestige is packed with a number of features that give it the flexibility to provide a complete
networking solution for almost any user.
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High Speed Internet Access
The P642 ADSL router can support downstream transmission rates of up to 8Mbps and upstream
transmission rates of 640Kbps. The P642 also supports rate management; rate management allows ADSL
subscribers to select an Internet access speed that best suits their needs and budgets.
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PPPoE Support (RFC2516)
PPPoE (Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet) emulates a Dial-Up connection. It allows your ISP to use
their existing network configuration with newer broadband technologies such as ADSL. The PPPoE driver
on the Prestige is transparent to the PCs on the LAN, which see only Ethernet and are not aware of PPPoE
thus saving you from having to manage PPPoE clients on individual PCs.
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Transmission Rate Standards
♦ Supports Multi-Mode standard (ANSI T1.413, Issue 2; G.dmt(G.992.1); G.lite(G992.2)) 1 .
♦ Full-Rate (ANSI T1.413, Issue 2; G.dmt(G.992.1)) with line rate support of up to 8Mbps
downstream and 1024kbps upstream.
♦ G.lite (G.992.2) with line rate support of up to 1.5Mbps downstream and 512Kbps upstream.
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IP Alias allows you to partition a physical network into logical networks over the same Ethernet interface.
The Prestige supports three logical LAN interfaces via its single physical Ethernet interface with the
Prestige itself as the gateway for each LAN network.
1 Depends on firmware release version.