News Magazine for Resellers Autumn | 2009 IMPULSE HIGHLIGHTS ZyXEL’s Green Commitment From core to edge. Page 11 Birthday ZyXEL celebrates the 20th anniversary. Page 12 ZyXEL Security Promotion 20 - 25 % Trade-in rebate for USG firewalls. Page 9 Digital Multimedia Streamer Enjoying video, photos and music in the living room. Page 2 Hybrid Access Point Controls up to 24 access points. Page 6 ZyXEL Cooperates with Extricom Expanding WLAN business opportunities.
MULTIMEDIA SOLUTION Digital Multimedia Streamer in HD The new ZyXEL DMA-2500 brings digital home entertainment to the living room. Equipped with high definition technology and a wide range of supported formats, the media adapter transfers photos, films and music to the television and the stereo, thereby providing HD digital entertainment in the home network. In this connection, the DMA-2500 has triggered a new era in digital home entertainment.
MULTIMEDIA SOLUTION Video Codecs The ZyXEL DMA-2500 supports all the important media formats for music, images and videos on the computer. Users therefore have access to digital content in their living rooms. Data formats no longer need to be transformed using a lot of effort. Besides the many standard formats, such as avi, wmv and mpg, the mkv Matroska container format is certainly one of the most important. An increasing number of H.
NETWORK CONTROL DEVICE Home Router including WLAN On/Off The WLAN firewall router ZyXEL NBG-419N is ideally suited for multimedia networks in family households. Manufactured according to WLAN standard 802.11n, it is equipped to meet sophisticated multimedia specifications. One highlight is a physical switch to deactivate the wireless function. Wireless On/Off Switch Misgivings about electro-smog are present in many households.
SWITCHES ZyXEL Power over Ethernet (PoE) Solution The deployment of PoE as a solution enables businesses to reduce network complexity, providing a superior standard-based approach (IEEE 802.3af) to networking. It helps enterprises to reduce installation time and costs when connecting devices such as wireless access points, VoIP phones and CCTV IP surveillance cameras.
WIRELESS LAN Hybrid Access Point for 802.11a/b/g/n ZyXEL is introducing the new NWA-3166 business hybrid access point including 802.11a/b/g/n. As a wireless controller, it offers centralised management of up to 24 managed client access points (AP). Since it supports the standard IEEE 802.11n (Draft 2.0), zones with low radio coverage can be accessed more easily. Up to 100Mbps Throughput Up to now, such throughput rates could only be achieved using Ethernet connections.
SWITCHES Strategic Alliance Between ZyXEL and Extricom ZyXEL now offers Extricom’s wireless controller systems to be used in conjunction with the ZyXEL product range to expand business opportunities for WLAN deployment with simpler design and maintenance, predictable throughput and continuous mobility. Extricom’s unique channel blanket architecture simplifies the installation of access points (APs) and places wireless intelligence in a central switch which coordinates the actions of all the APs.
ENTERPRISE SECURITY ZyXEL presents ZyWALL USG Flagship ZyXEL has launched the ZyWALL USG 2000, a firewall appliance for enterprise networks. Besides highest performance and security levels, the ZyWALL USG flagship shines with fibreglass connection, freely configurable Gigabit ports and a high level of availability thanks to internal power supplies with separate power flows as well as complete security features.
ENTERPRISE SECURITY Get up to 25% off for a Complete ZyWALL USG UTM Bundle Starting at the beginning of September, ZyXEL launches an attractive trade-in promotion. Resellers trading in their old firewall can benefit from a discount of up to 25% on a new generation ZyWALL USG appliance plus a complete UTM service bundle. The offer includes all ZyXEL USG models (ZyWALL USG 100, USG 200, USG 300, USG 1000 and USG 2000) and will be valid from 1st September 2009 to 31st March 2010.
SUCCESS-STORY Free Wireless Network Access at Outdoor Centre The FDF Scouts Outdoor Centre Sletten, on the lakes of Silkeborg, now offers FDF scouts and guests access to a wireless network anywhere within the large natural resort by using ZyXEL’s xDSL broadband modems. An effective and stable network was established, providing wireless Internet access to all areas of the outdoor centre including the centre office, houses, cabins and camp sites.
ZYXEL CORPORATE How to Save Costs With Green IT Reducing energy consumption and related green efforts can save costs, however there are still many enterprises which hesitate to employ them because of two main challenges: First trade-offs between performance and being green and lacking green networking solutions from core to edge. ZyXEL’s SME green networking solution provides comprehensive environment-savvy network architectures to improve energy efficiency and performance and reduce costs.
ZYXEL CORPORATE Connecting the Future with ZyXEL Products This year ZyXEL is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its foundation. During the past 20 years, ZyXEL has used its innovative products to win partnerships with customers and build network infrastructures worldwide. Networking technology is changing the way people work, live, communicate and play. ZyXEL’s innovative technologies and solutions will play a big part in this change and will confidently face the challenges of the future.
