About This Guide

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About This Guide

Introduction

This installation and operation guide applies to the DDR2200 series residential

gateway. The DDR2200 series residential gateway connects to the DSL network in

your home to deliver data, video, voice, and wired (Ethernet) or wireless gateway

capabilities all from one device. Use this guide to install the residential gateway in

your home.

Purpose

This document provides the information you need to install and operate the

DDR2200 series residential gateway.

Audience

This guide is written for two audiences. Subscribers who have purchased a

residential gateway and want to experience high-speed Internet and high-quality

digital telephone service can use this guide for background information and basic

operation. This guide is also written for the service provider's installers who initially

set up and configure residential gateway in the subscriber's home. Most subscribers

will not want to use the more advanced functionality, and future releases of this

software will prevent subscriber access to these screens.

Document Version

This is the first formal release of this document.

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Introduction

Imagine walking through your home and accessing the Internet from

nearly any room. The DDR2200 series residential gateway connects to

the DSL line in your home and to your home network to deliver data,

video, voice, and wired (Ethernet) or wireless gateway capabilities all

from one device. You can use your residential gateway to connect to a

variety of devices in the home or small office. The residential gateway

supports high-speed data access, VoIP services, and features that

support Internet Protocol TV (IPTV) deployment. Use this chapter to

learn about your residential gateway.

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Chapter 1

Introducing the DDR2200

Series Residential Gateway

In This Chapter

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Benefits and Features

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What's On the Front Panel?

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What's On the Back Panel?

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Chapter 1

Introducing the DDR2200 Series Residential Gateway

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Benefits and Features

Your residential gateway offers the following benefits and features:

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Full routing functionality

. The gateway router provides broadband transfer

speeds available between your home network and the service provider's network

for multi-user sharing. The high-performance router distributes data seamlessly

to all devices in the network without a noticeable effect to performance or speed.

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True firewall capability

. The gateway firewall includes both standard

NAT/PAT security and Stateful Packet inspection to defend against external

attacks.

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High-quality data, voice, and IPTV services

. The gateway combines an ADSL2+

bonded modem, 4-port Ethernet switch, Home Phoneline Networking Alliance

(HPNA™) 3.0 bridge and router functionality with optional VoIP and Wi-Fi into

one integrated platform.

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Compact design

. The gateway is compact enough to sit on a desktop and

versatile enough to be wall mounted in an out of the way location. The

residential gateway can also stand vertically.

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Flexible networking

. The gateway combines a variety of home networking

technologies in one box: Ethernet, USB, 802.11g wireless, and HPNA.

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Ethernet.

Ethernet is a network standard for data transmission using either

coaxial or twisted pair cable over a LAN (local area network). The

information can be transmitted at speeds of 10 to 100 Mbps. If the home or

office is wired for Ethernet, use one of the four LAN interfaces on the

gateway to create a broadband network.

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USB

. The USB port allows you to directly connect a computer or other

network capable device.

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802.11g Wireless

. The gateway includes an integrated wireless access point

that allows you to roam wirelessly throughout your home or office. With the

high-power wireless technology of the DDR2200, wireless "coldspots" are

virtually eliminated in the home.

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HPNA.

The HPNA interface allows you to easily share digital services

throughout the home using the existing coaxial cable to distribute content

such as video, music, and games. HPNA offers the following benefits:

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Multi-room DVR. Subscribers can record and share digital services

simultaneously in every room.

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Multi-room gaming. Subscribers can access games from various locations

in the home and play simultaneously.

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PC to TV. Subscribers can access data and video services over the HPNA

coaxial network throughout the home.

Benefits and Features

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ADSL2+

. Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) provides high-access

transmission speeds for delivery of video, voice, and data services to homes over

ordinary copper telephone wire.