Preface; Thank You For Placing Your Trust In This Devolo Product; About This Manual - Devolo dLAN 500 AVpro+ Quick Manual

1 Preface

1.1 Thank you for placing your
trust in this devolo product.
devolo dLAN business solutions are a favourably
priced option for using the power grid infrastructure
in a building to establish a broadband IP network.
The advantage this brings is obvious: no new cables
have to be laid – expenditure and costs remain low.
dLAN can be used as an easily scalable, primary net-
work as well as to supplement an existing infrastruc-
ture.
You do not even have to do without an electrical
socket, as the dLAN 500 AVpro+ provides a power
supply to which you can connect your terminal de-
vices or multiple sockets as usual. The integrated
mains filter significantly improves data transmission
in the network.
The fast transfer rate of up to 500 Mbps makes every
bandwidth-intensive Internet application a real mul-
timedia treat. The integrated "Quality of Service"
function measures the bandwidth requirement, opti-
mises the data flow and ensures excellent quality—
particularly for voice and video data.
To protect your data, simply press a button on the
dLAN 500 AVpro+ to activate the convenient and
secure 128-bit AES (Advanced Encryption Standard)
encryption. In addition, the patented power saving
mode, which comes standard, automatically uses
less power.

1.1.1 About this manual

After a brief introduction to "dLAN" and "Green IT"
basics in Chapter 2, Chapter 3 will cover successfully
setting up your dLAN 500 AVpro+. Chapter 4 ex-
plains how to configure your dLAN network. Tips for
bandwidth optimisation, information about product
safety and environmental compatibility of the device
and our warranty conditions can be found in
Chapter 5 and conclude the manual.
You can find the technical data for the
dLAN 500 AVpro+ in the product information sheet
on the enclosed product CD.
Description of the symbols
Here we briefly describe the meaning of the symbols
used in this manual.
Very important note. Failure to ob-
serve this note may result in dama-
ge.
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