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3.0 Important Things to Know Before Getting
Started
3.1 More Than Just a Router
The Optimizer Voice is more than just a router. It has some enhanced proxy services in
addition to basic routing capabilities. There are three major data components:
1. Captive Portal - when enabled, it blocks access to the Internet without
authentication. Authentication can be via username and password or Pin-Code or Mac address
of a specific PC. The Captive Portal is disabled by default.
2. Proxy Server(s) - when Transparent proxy is enabled, all traffic on port 80 (http port)
is redirected through the internal proxy server. This allows URL and DNS filtering (whitelist and
blacklist sites), some content filtering (i.e. remove flash video) and you can turn on http logging
to see what URLs are being accessed by the users. You also have the option to communicate
upstream to a compression proxy server.
3. Firewall - A full-featured firewall is included. Block or allow IP address/ranges, port
ranges, different protocols. Rules can be applied to any path in and out of the router.
3.2 Designed Use of the Optimizer Voice
This router is suitable for two distinctly different audiences:
3.2.1 Single User Environment
For the single user that wants the convenience of BYOD (bring your own device) for email, web
browsing, SMS and phone calls. All that is required is a RedPort-certified compression email
account like XGate and/or compression web-browsing service like XWeb. By adding the XGate
Phone app, a smartphone can be used to place and receive voice calls and/or SMS messages
over the satellite network. With the optional RedPort VoIP service, the costs of those voice
calls can be kept to a minimum.