User's Manual

GARNET GAE-3030
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Chapter 1. Overview
1.1 Introduction
Garnet ADSL(Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line) Modem GAE-3030 is an
External stand-alone modem that provides users faster connectivity than
conventional access technologies by offering up to 8 Mbps of
downstream line rate and up to 640 Kbps of upstream over existing phone
lines, which is asymmetric.
It also provides interoperability and industry standards and protocols.
Garnet ADSL Modem supports either G.992.1(G.dmt) or Splitterless
G.992.2(G.lite) standards via software upgrades.
Garnet ADSL Modem is suitable to be installed into PC, with Plug and Play
function in Windows95/98. Garnet ADSL Modem supports Windows NT,
2000 as well as Rinux and Macintosh.
1.2 Features
??Using Garnet ADSL Modem, you will experience stable, high speed
Internet access and can connect to other multimedia service networks
that ADSL delivers over existing PSTN copper wires.
??Garnet ADSL Modem, using existing phone lines, can help greatly
reduce cost for installing new lines, i.e. optical cables, for high speed
network transmission.
??Compared with conventional dial-up modems, Garnet ADSL Modem
provides high speed network access always on, irrespective of
subscriber numbers. You can simultaneously have phone
conversation.
??Garnet ADSL Modem offers multiple applications such as Internet
access, messenger service, E-mail, file transfer, data download and
upload and etc.
??Garnet ADSL Modem is a customer premise terminal, co-operating
with Central Office equipments. So, the Central Office can effectively
manage subscriber network.