Founded in 1986, D-Link has a respectable position in the design, manufacture and marketing of advanced networking, broadband, digital, voice and data communications solutions. D-Link provides D-Link DI 1723 fixed Router is part of D-Link`s Multi-Service Access Router series, a line of highly flexible and reliable business class routers. This is a fixed router designed with maintainability and manageability in mind, to give users an extensible networking solution in terms of density, performance and usability. These routers provide a variety of services that can be tailored to the edge requirements of an Enterprise. D-Link Multi-Service Access Routers support Secure Internet, Intranet and Extranet access with VPN and firewall protection along with VLAN. A wide range of protocols are supported including X.25, F. R., SLIP, PPP, V.28, HDLC and V.35 D-Link Multi-Service Access Routers provide extensive security features, from simple firewall such as ACL and NAT to VPN L2TP, GRE, IPSec and authentication are supported. Other access security functions provided include RADIUS, PAP, CHAP, TACACS+ and PPP callback. The DI-1723 router is designed as a cost-effective solution like other D-Link Multi-Service Access Routers. This router comes default with a 10/100 Mbps Fast Ethernet port, 1 Sync/Async Serial port [DB44], 1 ISDN port and 1 Console port. The Console port is provided for local management. The key features of the router are: