Preface - ZyXEL Communications Prestige 941 User Manual

Prestige 941 Cable Router
About Your Cable Router
Congratulations on your purchase of the Prestige 941 Cable Router.
The Prestige Cable Router connects your 10/100 Mbps LAN to the Internet through your television cable. It
follows the industry standards and is interoperable with the industry's leading cable Headend equipment. It is
an ideal cable access solution for small offices and home offices to enjoy broadband Internet access.
Your Prestige 941 is easy to install and to configure since you do not need to set any switches.
All functions of the Prestige are software configurable via the SMT (System Management Terminal) interface.
The SMT is a menu-driven interface that you can access from a terminal emulator through the console port or
over a telnet connection.
About This User's Guide
The nine chapters of this manual are designed to guide you through the configuration of your Prestige for its
various applications.
Structure of This Manual
This manual is divided into five parts:
1. Getting Started (Chapters 1 and 2) is structured as a step-by-step guide to help you connect, install
and setup your Prestige to operate on your network.
2. The Internet Access (Chapter 3) describes how to configure your Prestige for Internet access.
3. Management & Maintenance (Chapters 4 to 7) provides information on management and
maintenance facilities for network administrators.
4. Telnet Configuration and Capabilities (Chapter 8) provides information about configuration using
telnet.
5. Troubleshooting (Chapter 9), provides information about solving common problems.
Regardless of your particular application, it is important that you follow the steps outlined in Chapters 1 and
2 to connect your Prestige to your LAN. You can then refer to the appropriate chapters of the manual,
depending on your applications.
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