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1.1 The BANDIT III Chassis
The BANDIT III is a full-featured tabletop model in the BANDIT family, providing both
IPsec/SLE VPNs and legacy-protocol support. The BANDIT III offers enhanced
performance features, a full choice of connections for the expansion port, and support of up
to 30 simultaneous VPN tunnels. Like other BANDIT VPN devices, the BANDIT III’s VPNs
support DES and 3DES; in addition, the BANDIT II, the BANDIT III, and the VSR-1200 can
also support AES.
Note: For chassis and port specifications, see BANDIT III Hardware Specifications .
The BANDIT III is available in a basic chassis, a chassis with an Ethernet Switch Module. or
an E&M Signaling chassis, each with one DB25 serial port. The BANDIT III is also available
in an expanded chassis with four additional DB25 serial ports. See the following:
• Standard BANDIT III Chassis
• BANDIT III Chassis with Ethernet Switch Module
• Expanded BANDIT III Chassis with Internal Data Unit
• BANDIT III E&M Signaling Chassis
1.1.1 Standard BANDIT III Chassis
The basic BANDIT III chassis ( Figure 1-2 ) contains LED indicators for the following items:
• Power
• Alarm state
• Network Activity for the port on a card in the expansion port
• Network Activity for port 2 of a two-port card in the expansion slot
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• Carrier detect (CD) and activity (ACT) on the DB25 serial port
• 10base-T/100base-T (10/100), CD/ACT, and half-duplex/full-duplex (HD/FD) on the
WAN port
• 10/100, CD/ACT, and HD/FD on three LAN ports
• CD/ACT on the internal (cellular) wireless card’s internal port
• CD/ACT on the modem
The BANDIT III can hold one or two wireless cards for CDMA, EVDO CDMA, GPRS GSM,
or EDGE GSM wireless networks. One card is internal; the other can be installed in the
external expansion slot. Each wireless card for the BANDIT III includes an antenna. (A
plastic chassis can use an internal antenna or an external antenna but not both; a metal
chassis uses only an external antenna.)
1. The Network Activity 2 LED applies only to the dual T1/E1 CSU/DSU port.
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