ZyXEL Introduces Dual Band Wireless Router

ZyXEL Communications has announced the availability of its latest Dual Band Wireless Router with bandwidth management. ZyXEL P-335U claims to provide high speed 802.11g and 802.11a wireless connection.

P-335U also performs stateful inspection filtering for network protection. With the default firewall settings, all outgoing and incoming traffic in the protected LAN is checked. The firewall feature includes TCP/UDP inspection, DoS (Denial of Services) detection and prevention, real time alert, reports and logs. ZyXEL P-335U also manages the limited bandwidth for multimedia applications.

“With ZyXEL’s exclusive Media Bandwidth Management v2 (MBM v2), the P-335U also provides the most comprehensive way to smartly manage the limited bandwidth for multimedia applications,” informed Mahendra Lalwani, MD, ZyXEL Technology India.

The other important feature is the capability to share Internet connectivity and printing resource. The built-in USB print server allows toshare a printer on the network without leaving a host PC on.

According to the release, the new product also enhances Multimedia Support with Wi-Fi MultiMedia (WMM), based on a subset of the IEEE 802.11e WLAN QoS draft standard. This helps the P-335U to improve the user experience for audio, video and voice applications over a wireless network.