F5 WANJet 500, Platform Manual

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Chapter 1
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Finding additional information and technical support
In addition to this guide, there are other sources of documentation you can
use in order to work with the WANJet platform. The information is
available in the guides and documents described below. The following
documentation is included with the WANJet platform.
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WANJet 500 Appliance Quick Start Card
The WANJet hardware includes the printed WANJet 500 Appliance
Quick Start Card . This document provides basic instructions for a quick
setup and initial configuration of the WANJet platform.
In addition to the documentation included with the platform, you can find
comprehensive technical documentation using the following resources.
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WANJet Appliance Administrator Guide
The WANJet
®
Appliance Administrator Guide provides all the
information the administrator needs to configure and manage the
WANJet appliance. It introduces the concepts of optimization,
Transparent Data Reduction (TDR), Application QoS, Type of Service,
and Connection Interception (CI).
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Release notes
Release notes for the WANJet appliance are available in HTML format
on the F5 Networks Technical Support web site,
http://tech.f5.com . The
release notes contain the latest information for the current version,
including a list of new features and enhancements, a list of fixes, and a
list of known issues.
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Technical support through the World Wide Web
The F5 Networks Technical Support web site, http://tech.f5.com ,
provides the latest release notes, technical notes, answers to frequently
asked questions, updates to the guides (if available), and the Ask F5
SM
search engine.
Stylistic conventions
To help you easily identify and understand important information, our
documentation uses the stylistic conventions described below.
Using the solution examples
Examples in this documentation use only private class IP addresses. When
you set up the solutions we describe, you must use valid IP addresses
suitable to your own network in place of our sample addresses.
Identifying new terms
When we first define a new term, the term is shown in bold italic text. For
example, the
Web UI is the browser-based utility for administering the
WANJet appliance.