1 I NTRODUCING THEOFFICE CONNECT® G ATEWAYOverview Welcome to the 3Com OfficeConnect® Gateway, a family of IntegratedAccess Devices (IADs), that supports the convergence of voice and dataover existing single-pair copper wiring. The OfficeConnect Gatewayfamily provides high-speed Internet and corporate LAN (Local AreaNetwork) access and uses voice over DSL (VoDSL) to support multipletoll-quality telephone lines.This chapter provides an overview of the OfficeConnect Gateway productfamily. The information in this chapter is organized as follows: Introducing the OfficeConnect Gateway Product Family What Can the OfficeConnect Gateway Do? Key Benefits Minimum System Requirements SpecificationsIntroducing theOfficeConnectGateway ProductFamilyThe 3Com OfficeConnect Gateway family of IADs offers a completeintegrated voice and data solution ideally suited for small businesses. Twotypes of base units and a voice expansion unit combine to provide ascalable solution of up to 12 derived voice lines. (Note: The actualnumber of voice lines supported by the OfficeConnect Gateway isdependent on the actual DSL line rate.)The OfficeConnect Gateway product family consists of the followinghardware platforms: OfficeConnect Gateway Data (base unit) OfficeConnect Gateway Data and Voice (base unit) OfficeConnect Gateway Voice Expansion (expansion unit)
