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Product Overview
Key Features and Benefits

Cisco 700 Key Features and Benefits
Product Details
Hardware

Specifications
Ordering Information

Cisco 700 Series — ISDN Access Routers

Product Overview

The Internet is a powerful tool for small businesses and home-office environments. Today, even a few users can leverage the World Wide Web to do the work of many buying, selling, communicating, finding new customers, linking to suppliers, and keeping close tabs on competitors from anywhere in the world.

But for small and home offices, delivering fast Internet access to multiple desktops used to be a sizable challenge. Today, Cisco 700 series Internet access devices provide an ideal, affordable solution that allows multiple PCs to easily share one Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) line for simultaneous access to the Internet.

Recommended for up to five users, the Cisco 700 series is designed for small offices and home-based businesses that need shared and cost-effective access to the Internet. And since these offices typically do not have networking expertise, the Cisco 700 series is also designed to be extremely easy to install.

Key Features and Benefits

Cisco 700 Key Features and Benefits

• Internet Access for Multiple Users over One ISDN Line

  The Cisco 700 series allows multiple PCs to access the Internet simultaneously, without the need to share a single PC with an Internet connection or rely on server-based hardware and software. A single Cisco 700 series can make everyone in the office more productive.

• Affordable Internet Connections for Small/Home Offices

  With the Cisco 700 series, there`s no need to install a separate ISDN card in every PC to provide Internet access to new users and no need to have multiple ISDN lines or multiple Internet access accounts. The Cisco 700 series includes everything you need for fast access, without need for costly added hardware or software in a dedicated PC or central server. And when you want to give Internet access to new users, just plug them into your hub or the Ethernet port on the Cisco 700 series no additional hardware or configuration is required.

• High-Speed Internet Connections

  Unlike ISDN cards, the Cisco 700 series does not steal performance from a PCs main processor or add work for your central server. Fast call set up with automatic dialup provides quick, automated connections to the Internet and online services. And Cisco 700 series Internet access devices include throughput-boosting data compression, so users can browse the Web quickly and receive faster downloads.

• Integrated CAPI Support for Optimal Performance for European Markets

  The Cisco 700 series is designed to take full advantage of popular European ISDN services. Integrated support for common application programming interface (CAPI) applications provides access to services such as faxing and online banking and a range of leading Internet service providers.

  Cisco 700 series Internet access devices are available with one-user or five-user RVS-COM Lite licenses, for access to all RVS-COM applications and CAPI applications. And since the CAPI 2.0 driver is built into the Cisco 700 series, there is no need to purchase separate software for your server.

  CAPI is an application programming interface standard used to access ISDN equipment connected to basic rate interfaces (BRIs) and primary rate interfaces (PRIs). Using a Cisco 700 series with RVS-COM Lite software provides a truly shared network environment and other benefits including: Soft fax (for analog and digital lines) for use with software such as AVMs Fritz!32, Symantec WinFax Pro, and RVS-COM Lite 1.6: Soft modem for e-mail and Web access to Internet service providers such as T-Online and CompuServe File and Euro-File Transfer Electronic banking and shopping with German T-Online Third-party CAPI-compliant applications. For further details on the CAPI standard, visit www.capi.org.

• 1-2-3 Connect - Few small offices have a dedicated networking expert, so Internet solutions must be easy to install and use. Cisco Fast Step(TM) Release 1.3 software, a Windows 95, 98, and NT 4.0-based tool, automates the process of configuring the Cisco 700 series router and connecting to the Internet and/or remote corporate network. With Cisco Fast Step software, users are up and running in three easy steps-no networking experience or router configuration expertise is required, making it as easy to use as a terminal adapter (ISDN card).

  • Connect the color-coded cables & insert Cisco Fast Step Release 1.3 CD-ROM

  • Select Your Service Provider

  • Enter your Internet account information (service provider, username, and password) or corporate network login information.

Product Details

Cisco 700 series Internet access devices are available in several configurations. For a simple connection of your PC to an ISDN service, the Cisco 761M provides a single WAN port and a single Ethernet port. The Cisco 775M provides a single WAN port, four Ethernet ports (integrated hub), and two analog telephone interfaces that allow standard telephones, fax machines, and modems to share the ISDN line. These analog telephone interfaces eliminate the need for multiple telephone lines and expensive ISDN telephones. They also support supplementary telephone services such as call waiting, call hold, call transfer, call-forwarding (Sweden and Finland), and three-way conferencing.

Hardware

Figure 17-47: Cisco 775M Rear View

Specifications

Ordering Information

Posted: Wed Sep 27 05:14:00 PDT 2000
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