A Small Office or Home Office (SOHO) consisting of a few users requires a
connection that provides faster, more reliable connectivity than an
analog dialup connection. In the configuration shown in the figure,
all the users at
the remote location have equal access to services located at the
corporate office through an ISDN router. This offers to the casual or
full-time SOHO sites the capability to connect to the corporate site
or the Internet at much higher speeds than are available over phone
lines and modems.
SOHO designs typically involve dialup only (SOHO-initiated
connections) and can take advantage of emerging address translation
technology to simplify design and support. Using these features, the
SOHO site can support multiple devices, but appears as a single IP
address.
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