Technical Details for Allied Telesis AT AR442S

Allied Telesis AT AR442S ... DSL connections without compromising on bandwidth, throughput, features, or security. The AT-AR440S series has been designed with the needs of the branch office or small to medium business in mind and comes with dying gasp and the WAN back-up features businesses expect.

The AT-AR440S series provides extensive IPsec based VPN capability, allowing the inter-connection of branch offices, remote teleworkers, and other users who require secure access to a corporate network. This capability provides a cost effective alternative to long-distance dial-in, leased line or frame-relay connections. The AT-AR440S series comes complete with integrated hardware acceleration to maximize encryption and throughput during secure communication. The product is compatible with key IPsec VPN clients.

In addition to hardware-based encryption, the AT-AR440S series comes with other security features, such as traffic filtering with event logging. Traffic filtering uses the source and destination addresses, port, protocol and TCP packet types to provide control over traffic that passes through the AT-AR440S.The AT-AR440S' Stateful Inspection firewall provides an increased level of security and HTTP and SMTP proxies provide improved control over web and mail communication.

A Port Interface Card (PIC) port on the AT-AR440S series provides businesses with a high degree of flexibility, enabling them to future proof their investment, obtain additional functionality or make use of WAN back-up options. For example, a backup WAN card, such as an ISDN card, can be installed in the PIC port enabling businesses to protect themselves against ADSL downtime. The PIC options available also enable businesses to achieve a higher LAN density without purchasing an additional switch. The AT-AR440S series' PIC port is compatible with a range of PICs, including BRI/PRI ISDN, high speed E1/T1, Synchronous, multiport 10/100BASE-T and VoIP.