Rackmountable Gigabit

Rackmountable Gigabit

Yamaha Rtx1200 Giga Access Vpn Router

The Yamaha RTX1200 Giga Access VPN Router is one product from Yamaha that has really caught our eye. Released at the end of October 2008 as solution for small to medium sized enterprises the RTX1200 has a lot of positives. The biggest is of course gigabit - allowing seamless WAN/LAN gigabit connections. With B-FLETS, KDDI and YUSEN in some places in Japan now offering gigabit connections, you would now be able to have gigabit throughput over your home LAN with the RTX1200.

Features of the Yamaha RTX1200:

* LAN Ports: all 10/100/1000. Lan 1x8 ports, Lan 2x1 port, Lan 3x1 port. (Denphone note: Lan 1 would be used for the inside local network with lan 2 as WAN or 3 possibly being used for DMZ services, such as webserver or alternatively for a backup WAN interface connection.)

* Power: 16W.

* ISDN Port: 1 S/T (BRI) Port.

* Throughput: 1 gigabyte/second.

* VPN Throughput: 200Mbit/second (AES).

* VPN Capability: IPsec / PPTP / IPIP Tunnel (nb. IPIP Tunnel cannot be used with encryption).

* VPN Tunnel's: 100 VPN Tunnels.

* Routing Protocols: OSPF, RIP, RIP2, BGP4.

* VoIP: SIP-NAT, UPnP. IAXy connections are easy to setup.

* NAT Sessions: 20,000.

* QoS Capability: VPN QoS, Dynamic Traffic Controller, Dynamic Class Control, Prioritization, Bandwidth slicing, Bandwidth Prioritization, and Congestion Notification.

* Layer 2 QoS: VLAN tagging, ToS->CoS, Coloring (ToS, CoS).

* Multicast: IPv6 Multicast.

* Backup Capability: VRRP / Automatic Line Fallover.

* Security Capabilities: URL Filter, Winny (Japanese P2P client) filter, DHCP authentification, LAN1 - Switchport splitting, DHCP/MAC address filtering, Share filter.

* Configuration Management: Switch to backup routes via Email, Download button, Status Lamp, Removable flash memory.

* Size: A4 (1/2U-ish). 1U rackmount kit available as an optional extra.

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