Sample hybrid lan – Motorola SURFBOARD SVG2500 User Manual

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1 OVERVIEW

3

• An

IEEE 802.11g

wireless access point to enable laptop users to remain

connected while moving around the home or small office or to connect desktop
computers without installing network wiring. Depending on distance, wireless
connection speeds can match that of Ethernet.

• Voice-Over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) telephone service with two telephone lines

available for reliable voice service with your broadband Internet connection.

• Increased reliability with a backup battery for your digital voice service for most

SVG2500 models.

• A secure Wi-Fi broadband connection for Wi-Fi enabled devices on your network,

such as your cellular telephone, laptops, printers, PDAs, and desktops.

• A USB connection for a single PC
• Four 10/100Base-T Ethernet uplink ports supporting half- or

full-duplex

connections and

auto-MDIX

• Routing

for a wireless LAN (WLAN) or a wired Ethernet LAN; you can connect

more than four computers using hubs and/or switches

• A built-in DHCP server to easily configure a combined wired and/or wireless

Class C private LAN

• An advanced

firewall

supporting

stateful-inspection,

intrusion detection,

DMZ,

denial-of-service attack prevention, and Network Address Translation (NAT)

• Virtual private network (VPN)

pass-through

operation supporting IPSec, PPTP, or

L2TP to securely connect remote computers over the Internet

Port Forwarding

to configure ports to run applications having special network

requirements

Sample Hybrid LAN

The sample LAN illustrated on the next page contains the devices listed below, all
protected by the SVG2500 firewall. Clockwise from top-right, the devices are:

• Cellular telephone with a wireless Wi-Fi connection
• PDA, an Apple Macintosh

®

computer, a desktop PC, and a laptop PC with a

802.11g wireless LAN connection

• Two wired telephone connections with SVG2500 VoIP Internet telephone access
• Computer and printer on the Ethernet port through a network hub connection,

and a computer connected directly to an Ethernet port

• PC connection to the USB port

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