Quick Eagle Networks 5844, 5842 User Manual

Quick Eagle Networks’ 5842 and 5844 Multiport Routers are ideal for medium­sized businesses and enterprise branch offices that require high performance
and high port density at lower cost.

The 5842 Multiport RouterTMcomes standard with 2 x T1/E1 WAN ports
enabled. However, its unique design allows your network to grow with your
business: it can be upgraded to 4 x T1/E1 WAN ports through software. No
waiting for hardware, no engineering time to perform the upgrade, and no
lengthy system downtime is required. The 5844 Multiport RouterTMcomes with
all 4 T1/E1 WAN ports activated

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Both routers deliver all the functions that you need in a branch office router: The
ability to configure static routes, and one or more dynamic routing protocols like
RIP1, RIP2, OSPF, and optional BGP-4, enables the routers to link small and
large enterprise networks with advanced IP routing services, such as multipaths
and path redundancy.

Static NAT, dynamic NAT, and overloading (NAPT) lets you access the Internet
using your private IP addresses. A stateful inspection firewall permits or denies
access based on source and destination IP addresses. The embedded network
performance monitoring features enable protocols and applications monitoring
(RMON-1, RMON-2) and Frame Relay Service Level Verification.

Multilink PPP (RFC1990) and Multilink Frame Relay (FRF.16.1) protocols
provide the 5842 and 5844 Multiport Routers with the capability to bond multiple
T1/E1s into a single high-speed virtual link or enable load balancing
applications. The 5842 and 5844 Multiport Routers can also be deployed as a
MAC Learning Bridge (IEEE 802.1d) over Frame Relay or PPP.

With optional standard-based DiffServ QoS (Differentiated Services/Quality Of
Service) capabilities the 5842 and 5844 Multiport Routers allow you to control and
manage the bandwidth on your WAN connection, eliminating bottlenecks for
your business-critical applications such as ERP and CRM. In addition, DiffServ
QoS enables delay-sensitive voice and video-over-IP services, while dedicating
enough bandwidth for lower priority traffic.

With their virtually wire-speed performance, scalability in routing protocols,
breadth of features, and competitive pricing, there are now alternatives to those
traditional, high cost, proprietary branch office routers.

When price and performance count.

Main Benefits:

• Lowers cost of ownership through

integrated routing, CSU/DSU,
optional Quality of Service, and
network monitoring capabilities

• Improves network reliability and

performance through load sharing
and load balancing in a
multihoming environment

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Offers flexible interfaces that can
be deployed as independent links
or bundled into one or more
MLPPP or MLFR bundles

• Supports broad range of routing

protocols such as static routing,
RIP1, RIP2, OSPF, optional
BGP-4, IGMPv3, and GRE

• Reduces access cost by

integrating NAT services for
Internet access

• Better performance than many

traditional branch office routers
due to integrated hardware and
software architecture

The 5842 and 5844 Multiport Routers

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For customers looking to expand beyond 4xT1/E1 WAN ports, please refer to Quick Eagle’s 5840 Multiport Router.

The 5842 and 5844 Multiport Routers provide the following features:

• Support for a wide variety of WAN protocols such as PPP, Frame Relay, Multilink PPP,

Multilink Frame Relay FRF.16.1, and MAC Learning Bridging for point-to-point and point­to-multipoint applications to the Internet, private or public Frame Relay networks

• Advanced IP / Frame Relay Router capabilities with:

• Standard-based IP-over-Frame Relay encapsulation, RFC-2427 compliant

• Link Management Interface (LMI): ANSI AnnexD, ITU Annex A, and FRF Rev 1.0

• Static and dynamic configuration of up to 1024 DLCIs

• Static and dynamic mapping of DLCI to IP Subnets using InverseARP

• Dynamic routing protocols RIP1, RIP2, OSPF, and optional BGP-4 (I-BGP and E-BGP)

• Dynamic load balancing, using OSPF or optional BGP-4 (I-BGP and E-BGP)

• Optional DiffServ-compliant QoS capabilities:

• Ability to assign maximum bandwidth to each traffic class

• Traffic metering, shapes or drops “out-of-profile” traffic

• Prevents lower classes of traffic from being bandwidth starved

• Enables QoS per routing interface in incoming and outgoing direction

• Novice user configuration with presets; advanced user to optimize resources and
throughput; statistics reports on QoS

• Network Address Translation (NAT) and port translation (NAPT)

• Remote configuration and management through Telnet (Terminal User Interface menus),

Command Line Interface (CLI), and SNMPv3

• MAC Bridging features: VLAN MPLS tag transparency

• Basic device configuration and T1/E1 loopback diagnostics through front panel

• Full range of network performance monitoring and troubleshooting features that enable

you to accurately measure end-to-end performance of the network, including RMON-1
statistics, RMON-2 applications and protocol monitoring, and Frame Relay SLA FRF.13.

• Multilink Frame Relay (FRF.16.1) and MLPPP (RFC1990) support

• Stateful Inspection Firewall with TCP, UDP, ICMP, DNS, SMTP, FTP, and HTTP protocol

handling capabilities

• Menu access for layer-3 and above statistics

• Multiple multilink bundles and support of MLPPP / MLFR bundle classes A, B & C

• Support of DHCP server and DHCP relay agent

A sophisticated product architecture.