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CHAPTER 2: Introduction
2. Introduction
With the SDSL Network Extender 2000, you can create a
long-distance Ethernet connection over your own
private telephone wiring using Symmetric Digital
Subscriber Line (SDSL) technology, which is far faster
than regular dialup, leased-line, or even ISDN links.
Here’s how it works: If you can run (or have already
run) telephone cabling between the sites you want to
connect, put the Extender’s Provider Unit on one end
of this cabling and its Subscriber Unit on the other, then
attach them to your Ethernet networks at each site. The
two Units will send each other all of the data going
either direction on the Ethernet bus, at speeds up to
2.32 Mbps (the data rate depends on the length of the
cabling between the Units).
All you have to do is set the DIP switch once, cable the
units, and plug them in. No configuration-—no muss,
no fuss. Just a reliable, high-speed connection that’s
always on.
