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    Product Features ■ Sea mle ss vo ice and dat a int egr ati on ove r V o IP- bas ed net wor k arc hit ect ure s ■ Sin gle , qua d T1, Et her net , and ADSL IADs ■ Up to 24 anal og PO TS int erf ace s ■ D SX - 1 for P BX c on ne cti vity ■ Com pat ibl e wit h indu stry- lea din g sof tsw itc hes and cal l age nts ■ Dyn ami c ban dwi dth a[...]

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    T o t a l A c c e s s ® 9 0 0/ 9 0 0 e S e r ie s IP Bus in ess Gat ew a ys Prod uct Specif icatio ns Physical Interfaces WA N ■ S ingle T1/FT1 (900 Series) ■ Q uad T1/FT1 (900e Series) ■ S ingle Ethern et (900 Series) ■ D ual Ethernet (900e Series) ■ A DSL/ADL S2+ (Annex A) (904 and 908 only) ■ R J-48C LAN ■ S ingle auto-s ensing 10[...]

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    Security Firewa ll ■ S tateful Inspection Firewall ■ D enial of Service (DOS) Protecti on ■ A ccess Contro l Lists ■ A pplicat ion Level Gatewa ys ■ P acket Filter ing Network Address T ranslation ■ B asic NA T (1:1) and NAPT (Many:1) Quality of Service (QoS) ■ L ow Latency and W eighted Fair Queuing (WFQ ) ■ D iffServ packet markin[...]

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    64210912L1-8I June 2009 Copyright © 2009 ADTRAN, Inc. All rights reserved. ADTRAN, Inc. Attn: Enterp rise Network s 901 Explorer Boulevard Huntsvi lle, AL 35806 P .O. Box 140000 Huntsvi lle, AL 35814-400 0 256 963-8000 256 963-8699 fax General Information 800 9ADTRAN info@ad tran.com www .adtran.com Pre-Sales T echnical Support 800 615-1176 toll-f[...]