Overview

Protection of your network is a mission critical activity. At Linksys, we build powerful security into every product, to keep your wired and wireless networks safe. Linksys Small Business Series systems have advanced firewall, encryption and authentication features to protect you from network threats – threats that can seriously disrupt or damage your business by stealing your valuable data, slowing down your network and interfering with business-critical applications. Our systems ensure maximum application availability enabling you to meet corporate governance and business continuance requirements. The Linksys Small Business Series is the affordable, reliable, high quality networking solution that helps you do business smarter. Secure and easy to install and maintain, it’s built to grow with your business.

As broadband speeds increase most 10/100 gateways do not have the power to support those higher data rates, and thus become the bottleneck in the network. The RVS4000 10/100/1000 4-Port VPN Router works at Gigabit speeds to meet the demands of today's networks. It features Linksys' proven SPI Firewall with an integrated Intrusion Detection and Prevent System (IDS/IPS).

Its built-in 4-port full-duplex 10/100/1000 Ethernet switch can connect up four PCs directly, or additional hubs and switches. The QoS features provide consistent voice and video quality throughout your business.

In addition the RVS4000 features a Virtual Private Network (VPN) security engine that creates encrypted "IPSec tunnels" through the Internet. The IPSec VPN tunnels enable remote users from at home, or on the road to easily, and securely connect to the office network through a typical wired or wireless broadband connection. When used with another RVS4000 or other Linksys VPN router, "branch-to-branch" connections can be established allowing users in a remote office to connect to the corporate network.

• Gigabit networking to support high-bandwidth applications
• SPI Firewall, and Intrusion Protection secure the work from outside threats
• QuickVPN IPSec VPN tunnel support provides secure remote user connectivity
• QoS provide improved quality voice/video quality

Important Advice

A Broadband Router connection is usually the best way to connect to your high speed Broadband connection. Broadband Routers allow multiple users to use your Internet service at the same time so everyone can enjoy high-end Internet functions like streaming video and audio. Share files, printers and other peripherals, most broadband routers also provide a much safer internet connection with built-in firewall security preventing unauthorised access of your network from the internet.

Broadband routers can only be used via a Cable modem connection. Broadband routers (Cable/DSL Routers) don't have built-in modems and are primarily used with Cable Modem broadband where the Ethernet broadband modem is supplied by your ISP. The router must be fed the internet connection via Ethernet and so cannot be used with ADSL USB modems. Some routers can be used on ADSL Broadand with a separate ADSL Ethernet Modem. Should you need to expand the number of ports, you'll need a switch to connect to.