Vanguard Managed Solutions Vanguard 342 - Manual (Page 22)

1-2 About the Vanguard 342
Vanguard 342 Description
Vanguard 342 Description
Introduction This section describes the Vanguard 342 device.
Description The Vanguard 342 is a member of the 340 family. The Vanguard 342 expands the
capabilities of the 340 by providing enhanced performance, increased memory and
support for new applications and services to meet the growing demands of the small
branch office. It’s high performance architecture and features enable new WAN
services such as G.SHDSL, broadband DSL and Cable access, as well as
multiservice voice, data, video integration, and VPN. The 342 comes standard with
two 10/100BaseT auto-sensing Ethernet ports - one of which can be used as a WAN
port for direct connectivity to a DSL or Cable modem, or for LAN segmentation to
separate public from private data.
The Vanguard 342 offers cost-effective integrated solutions that simultaneously
support:
• Data
• Fax
• Voice over Frame Relay and Voice over IP
• Virtual Private Network (VPN)
• Broadband access
• Two 10/100BT LAN Ports
Note
The second LAN port is port 8.
The Vanguard 342 is SNMP-manageable and comes with a variety of LAN, SNA,
and IP networking features. The Vanguard 342 supports two Vanguard Daughtercard
slots for voice, fax and mixed protocol data traffic such as, IP, Frame Relay, X.25,
ISDN, or NX64 T1/E1 services. The Vanguard 342 also comes with two
10/100BT LAN Ports.
For descriptions of the Vanguard 342 Daughtercard and other hardware components,
refer to the appropriate sections in Chapter 2, Hardware Description
.
Limitations Ethernet SLAC stations are not supported on the 2nd LAN port of
Vanguard
®
342 .
Note
CMEM configurations from Vanguard 342 should not be loaded on a Vanguard
340. If the 342 CMEM has Port 5 with a Bridge Link Number or Router
Interface Number parameters with a value different from 1, then the Port 5
record needs to be deleted and then created again.
FLASH SIMMs for the Vanguard 340 and 6400 Series are not compatible with the
Vanguard 342. Vanguard 342 SIMMs are not compatible with the Vanguard 340 and
6400 Series. The SIMMs could be damaged.
The Vanguard 342 requires 6.2 or greater software.