Apple Internet Router

With the Apple Internet Router, you can easily increase the size, enhance the performance, and improve the management of your organization's AppleTalk network.

The router offers you both local and wide area networking flexibility. You can connect your local workgroups over industry-standard network types, including LocalTalk, Ethernet, and Token Ring. And, as your network grows larger and more global, the Apple Internet Router lets you choose among several wide area options -- you can link remote sites to your network through a dial-up connection over a standard modem, or you can add one of the Apple Internet Router Wide Area Extensions (available separately) to link your AppleTalk networks using X.25 or TCP/IP.

The Apple Internet Router features the AppleTalk Update-based Routing Protocol (AURP), a powerful wide area networking standard. AURP ensures that wide area links function efficiently, substantially reducing the traffic over wide area networks. With AURP, you can be certain that you're maximizing the use of your network resources.

Because the Apple Internet Router software runs on a broad range of Apple Macintosh computers and Workgroup Servers, you can tailor your router configurations to meet your cost/performance requirements. And, like other Macintosh computer-based software, the router is easy to use, configure, and support. Even a network novice can have the router up and running and can begin to make use of its powerful features within minutes. In addition, the router has built-in support for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), so it can be easily monitored by any SNMP-based management station.

Whether you have a small office and want to connect together a few workgroups or you're part of a multinational corporation with global internetworking needs, the Apple Internet Router provides the perfect networking solution.

FEATURES

OPERATING REQUIREMENTS

PRODUCT DETAILS

ORDERING INFORMATION

Apple Internet Router

FEATURES

Easy to Set Up and Use LAN and WAN Support Protection from Unauthorized Access Network Efficiency Robust Administration

OPERATING REQUIREMENTS

Basic Connectivity Package AppleTalk/X.25 Wide Area Extension AppleTalk/IP Wide Area Extension

PRODUCT DETAILS

Setup and Configuration

The router provides the ease of use you've come to expect with any Macintosh computer­p;based application. You simply select the port you wish to configure and depending on the connection, enter a network, host, or phone number for each network you want to interconnect. The rest is automatic, because the Apple Internet Router communicates dynamically with other routers to build a table of the entire internet. And, because the router runs in the background, you can maximize your investment by running other services such as AppleShare and SNA·ps concurrently.

Network Types

The Apple Internet Router can interconnect all types of AppleTalk networks, including: This offers you great flexibility in choosing network media and topologies. You can use the router for such things as connecting LaserWriter printers on LocalTalk networks to Ethernet, connecting networks with dissimilar media, isolating network segments for security and performance, and extending the network beyond physical segment limitations. Multiple Token Ring cards with Power Macintosh computers and PowerPC microprocessor-based Workgroup Servers require NSI 1.4.5 or later.

Monitoring and Control

Through the Router Manager application, you can: In addition, the Apple Internet Router supports the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), enabling you to monitor the router from any SNMP-based management station. For Power Macintosh computers and PowerPC microprocessor-based Workgroup Servers, MacSNMP 1.1 is required.

Security

The Apple Internet Router offers sophisticated security options that protect the router and your sensitive network resources from unauthorized access, including: WAN Support

With the Apple Internet Router Wide Area Extension options you can connect geographically remote workgroups using wide area telecommunications links. The Apple Internet Router Wide Area Extension products include:

The DialUp Wide Area Extension (included with Basic Connectivity Package): The AppleTalk/X.25 Wide Area Extension (available separately): The AppleTalk/IP Wide Area Extension (available separately): Traffic Minimization

Several features of the Apple Internet Router ensure that only information that needs to travel across your communications link does so: Support of Large Networks

The Apple Internet Router lets you build large internets that can connect across the street or around the world. An AppleTalk internet can support as many as 16 million devices (nodes) distributed over a virtually unlimited number of interconnected networks. And, because the Apple Internet Router provides for a nearly limitless number of networks and zones per internet, it can grow right along with your organization.

Extensibility

Because the Basic Connectivity Package was designed with extensibility in mind, you can choose from a wide variety of internetworking options. In addition to Apple's wide area extensions, third-party offerings let you expand in the areas of: Specifications

Router table entries: 5,400 maximum
Nodes per internet : 16 million
Ports per router: up to 32

ORDERING INFORMATION

Apple Internet Router Basic Connectivity Package 3.0.1
Order no. M0502Z/B Apple Internet Router AppleTalk/X.25 Wide Area Extension
Order no. M8111Z/A
(requires purchase of Basic Connectivity Package) MacX25 Router Extension
Order no. M8068Z/A
(requires purchase of Basic Connectivity Package and MacX25 v1.2) Apple Internet Router AppleTalk/IP Wide Area Extension
Order no. M8112Z/A
(requires purchase of Basic Connectivity Package)
Product specifications may vary depending on particular configuration or region in which purchased and subject to change without notice. Please see your Apple reseller for current information about product specifications and configurations.
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