QNAP QHora-301W User Manual
Agenda
• Difficulties encountered by SMBs and individual studios in
the Work From Home era
• The market exclusive functions brought by QHora-301W
fulfills your needs
• Hardware advantages
• Dual-port 10GbE meets all your application scenarios
• High speed Wi-Fi 6 routing
• The powerful QuRouter OS
• Enable subscription-free QNAP SD-WAN on QHora-301W
Difficulties encountered by
SMBs and individual studios in
the Work From Home era
Site-to-site VPN were only used by a few
branches and remote officers
HQ
Tokyo Taipei
VPN
Remote
Worker
Remote
Worker
During the pandemic, number of remote workers
dramatically increased due to working from home
HQ VPN
No one in
office
Remote
Worker
Remote
Worker
Remote
Worker
HQ VPN
Distributed remote working style creates many issues
Machine delivery and
maintenance is
time-consuming
IT admin cannot manage
organization-wise network
devices efficiently.
VPN connection
frequently crashed
Data security
issues
Setting up site to
site VPN is time
consuming
Current router only has
one 10GbE, unable to do
remote backup.
Wireless connection
cannot afford the sudden
increase of wireless
device from home users
Existing Wi-Fi routers cannot handle the sudden increase in
network equipment and transmission demand
• Multiple devices can only take turns to
connect to the network. This condition
causes network congestion.
• The transmission speed of existing routers
is slow, and data cannot be backed up
efficiently through wireless network.
• Affect family members’ experience of
watching movies or play games.
Remote backup is needed but common Wi-Fi 6 router
usually only has one 10GbE port
• Only has one 10GbE
• 10GbE WAN corresponding to 2.5GbE and 1GbE LAN cannot play
the high-speed internal and external network transmission speed
Common
router
Slow
VPN
VPN
connection
crashed
• More remote clients connect and exchange traffic through a single or few VPN routers in HQ.
• Increasing overload & performance bottleneck on the HQ site.
• More network stability & reliability issues resulted from the overloaded VPN router in HQ site.
VPN
VPN
VPN
VPN
VPN
HQ
More work-from-home
More distributed remote workers
Designers store files and images
PM get data
Sales use ERP
RD uses server to develop software
Purchasing dept. use ERP
Server connects via VPN
Lack of effective ways to manage large
number of external devices
• IT administrators cannot manage equipment usage and connection status
• Not every remote worker has the knowledge to set up and maintain the on-prem devices
• Device & network troubleshooting can be time-consuming
VPN
VPN
VPN
VPN
VPN
VPN
HQ
IT Overload
Designers store files and images
PM gets data
Salespersons use ERP
RD uses server to develop software
Procurement dept. use ERP
Server connects via VPN
Setting up site-to-site VPN is
time and labor consuming
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Employees who need to exchange data frequently within the group would need to create site to site
VPN network by themselves. But setting up VPN is not easy, and special equipment may be
required, hence, deploying a large mesh VPN solution can be very time and labor consuming.
Router
Employee
Productivity
Decreased!
Router
Router
Router
Enterprise level VPN solution is expensive
SMB start to look for VPN solutions on the market to solve these problems, but not every
SMB can afford the high cost for extending or building a complete VPN solution.
New Generation WiFi 6
and Dual 10GbE SD-WAN Router
• Wireless connectivity: support WiFi 6 (802.11ax)
• Flexible network deployment: Dual 10GbE ports
• VPN deployment: built-in SD-WAN technology
QHora-301W
New-gen Router Requires WiFi 6
1200 Mb/s
867 Mb/s
160MHz channels comparison
Wi-Fi 5
Wi-Fi 6
Support WiFi 6 dual-band 802.11ax (2.4GHz & 5GHz), delivering max. 3600Mb/s transfer speeds. WiFi 6 is
1.38 times faster than WiFi 5.
In 2020, most new client devices will support WiFi 6,
including computers, mobile phones and tablets.
New-gen Router Requires WiFi 6
By using OFDMA & MU-MIMO, multiple
sets of devices can transmit data at the
same time, thereby improving network
efficiency and reducing connection delay
User 1
(Message)
User 2
(Online
Shopping)
User 3
(Social Media)
Traditional
OFDM
OFDMA
Waiting… Waiting…
• By increasing the amount of data that can
be carried in each packet, the speed will
definitely increased.
• Compared with Wi-Fi 5 (11ac) which uses
256-QAM, 1024-QAM can increase the
rate by 1.25 times.
1.25 X
Faster speed
11ax
1024-QAM
11ax
256-QAM
10bits
8bits
1.25x
New-gen Router Requires WiFi 6
Support high-speed internal and external network transmission
Meet the needs of remote backup of large business files
QHora-301W
New-gen Router Requires Dual 10GbE Port
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No need to purchase
other devices for multi-
site VPN
• Auto VPN tunneling
• Support network optimization to
ensure connection quality
QuWAN Orchestrator
New-gen Router needs to provide
SD-WAN service
Built-in SD-WAN solution (QuWAN), supporting full Mesh VPN for easy multi-site VPN deployment.
Subscription-Free Center ManagedFlexible Deployment
QHora-301W
Hardware
Advantages
Hardware Appearance
WiFi Enabled
10GbE Connectivity
2 x USB
3.2 Gen 1
4 x 1 GbE Ports
(1000/100/10Mbps)
2 x 10 GbE Ports
(10G/5G/2.5G/1G/100M)
8 x 5dBi
Internal Antennas
1GbE Connectivity
Status
Power
12V DC Input
Power Switch
WPS
Reset Button
Configurable
Ports for WAN
Eight Internal Antennas
• Professionally tuned
• Powerful Performance
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