User's Manual

ES2440 Hardware Guide: Overview
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Chapter 1
Overview
1.1 This Document
WARNING: can
cause physical in-
jury or death and/or se-
verely damage your
equipment.
This user guide covers preparing and installing the Fortress
ES2440 High-Capacity Infrastructure Mesh Point hardware. It
also describes the LED indicators and recessed button
operation and provides specifications. Other Fortress hardware
devices are covered in separate hardware guides, one for each
Mesh Point (or Network Encryptor) model.
Fortress Mesh Point user guidance is intended for professional
system and network administrators and assumes that its users
have a level of technical expertise consistent with these roles.
CAUTION: can cor-
rupt your net-
work, your data or an
intended result.
Side notes throughout this document are intended to alert you
to particular kinds of information, as visually indicated by their
icons. Examples appear to the right of this section, in
descending order of urgency.
NOTE: may assist
you in executing
the task, e.g. a conve-
nient software feature or
notice of something to
keep in mind.
1.1.1 Related Documents
Each Fortress hardware series runs the same Fortress
software, and differences between ES and FC series software
are minor. Fortress software user guidance covers all current
Fortress hardware platforms.
Fortress Mesh Point software guides include:
 Mesh Point and Network Encryptor Software GUI Guide
 Mesh Point and Network Encryptor Software CLI Guide
 Mesh Point and Network Encryptor Software Auto Config-
uration Guide
In addition to this guide, the Fortress hardware guides include:
 ES210 Tactical Mesh Point Hardware Guide
 ES440 Infrastructure Mesh Point Hardware Guide
 ES520 Deployable Mesh Point Hardware Guide
 ES820 Vehicle Mesh Point Hardware Guide
 FC-X Inline Network Encryptor Hardware Guide
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