Preface

The FB2500 device is the result of several years of intensive effort to create products based on state of the art processing platforms, featuring an entirely new operating system and IPv6-capable networking software, written from scratch in-house by the FireBrick team. Custom designed hardware, manufactured in the UK, hosts the new software, and ensures FireBrick are able to maximise performance from the hardware, and maintain exceptional levels of quality and reliability.

The result is a product that has the feature set and performance to handle the tasks encountered in today's office networking environments, where new access technologies such as Fibre To The Cabinet (FTTC) deliver faster connections than ever before.

The new software is closely related to that which runs on FireBrick's 'big-box' product, the FB6000, a carrier-grade product that has been proven in the field for a number of years, effortlessly handling huge volumes of traffic, and thousands of customer connections.

The software is constantly being improved and new features added, so please check that you are reading the manual appropriate to the version of software you are using. This manual is for version V1.55.000.