DAX 1841 Edge Router is meant for mid-sized businesses. It
has two 10/100 LAN ports, supports four WAN slots and has two additional
expansion slots. Its routed ports can be used for connecting a wireless AP as
well as ADSL broadband modems. It has a console port which provides complete
control of the router with command line interface and can also be connected
directly to a PC's RS232 port. It has an MPC8250 200MHz processor with 8MB flash
and an unexpandable 64 MB SD RAM. This router also has an additional IP voice
port for VoIP. DX1841 has all the QoS features such as Selective Packet Discard,
Committed Access Rate (CAR), First Input & First Output (FIFO), Priority
Queue (PQ), and Custom Queue (CQ) in the basic operating software itself thus
saving the cost of extra software for QoS. This router is integrated with
hardware encryption IPSEC. It supports DES/3DES/ AES encryption techniques.
Price: Rs 65,380 (3 yrs carry-in warranty) |
Key Specs: Two 10/100Mbps ethernet ports, a console port, an IP voice port , two expansion slots |
Contact: Dax Networks, Chennai. Tel: 24323558. E-mail: sk@daxnetworks.com |
RQS# E53 or SMS 130453 to 9811800601 |
Other security features include IP packet filtering, GRE tunneling and MD5
Authentication. In addition, WAN optimization features such as Inactivity
Timeouts, Traffic Prioritization, DDR (dial-on-demand) routing and filtering,
bandwidth-on-demand (BoD), compression, load balancing and spoofing are also
supported. The device supports routing and multicast routing protocols such as
IGMP v1/v2, PIM-SM and PIM-DM.
We tested this router between two physical networks that
were connected via a switch. We ran NetIQ's Qcheck to measure throughput data
transfer, streaming rate and response time. It gave a throughput of 72 Mbps on
transferring 1000 KB of payload from one end to another. Its response time was
1ms. The router gave 995 Kbps with 1000 Kbps streaming data payload.
Bottom Line: Taking into consideration its price and
performance, this product is worth a buy for mid-sized businesses.
Swapnil Arora