![]() VigorACS can be installed on a Windows or Linux server, locally or in the cloud, and doesn’t need particularly demanding specs unless you run thousands of nodes. The licence keys are available via your local Draytek distributor, rather than Draytek itself. The exact price varies depending on how many nodes you need to handle, it starts from around $250 / £200 / AU$349 per year for 25. It’s based on a yearly licence, with keys that cover up to a certain number of devices available for purchase. To make life easier, DrayTek has a paid, server-based TR-069 management solution called VigorACS. Of course this starts to become unwieldy before you actually hit that many network devices. It can handle 50 wireless access points, and 30 switches right from the interface. One of the key features of the Vigor3910 is the ability to manage a wider network made up of DrayTek devices. (Image credit: Future) Network management What’s not to love about being able to configure octuple WANs for the ultimate performance and redundancy. The router will happily auto discover existing LAN subnets, as well as DrayTek switches and APs on the network. VPN links, bandwidth allocation, WAN failover all worked as described. It’s no surprise that getting everything configured correctly at first is a decently in-depth task, but from that point on it was smooth sailing. It did so with aplomb, and the CPU utilisation left plenty of extra headroom. ![]() We fell short of the full 9.4Gbps NAT throughput, but only because the router easily handled the loads we provided. While we didn’t have a 10Gbps WAN connection available for testing, we pushed the router as far as possible. We set up a test network with a variety of DrayTek wireless access points, switches and routers, as well as a range of other NAS, IP cameras, smart devices, and computers. The manual (all 627 pages of it) is a very comprehensive how-to guide in itself, and there are extra support and knowledge options available on the Draytek website. ![]() It is of course quite dense, but that's a reflection of the depth of features. The Vigor3910 can be configured via the web browser interface, which is fairly straightforward. ![]() (Image credit: Future) Interface and testing The Vigor3910 web interface is very functional, with loads of in-depth configuration and management options. When connected to wireless access points, it can also manage a Hotspot web portal for users to log in and access Wi-Fi. It has very in-depth bandwidth management and a comprehensive inbuilt firewall and content filtering capabilities. The Vigor3910 is well equipped to handle multiple networks, with support for 50 VLANs and subnets. The Vigor3910 supports all the industry standards for VPNs, and can also do VPN trunking, where multiple WAN connections can be used to link to the remote device, giving extra bandwidth and failover support. 200 of those can be encrypted SSL VPN connections, with 1.6 Gbps of throughput. The Vigor3910 can handle up to 500 concurrent VPN connections, with 3.3 Gbps of throughput. One use for all this bandwidth is VPN connections, for a business with many remote workers or offices. Thanks to a 1.2GHz quad-core CPU and hardware acceleration, the NAT throughput is a huge 9.4Gbps, and 1 million NAT sessions. While the Vigor3910 can enable extremely fast internet connections, it also needs to handle all that data. They can also be used to give excellent performance for data heavy needs, such as network attached storage. The remaining SFP+ and 2.5G /1G ports could then be used to link to other sections of the business, for example an SFP+ fibre connection to maintain high throughput to a remote part of the business. The two 10G SFP+ ports on the Vigor3910 enable ultra fast 10Gbps connections. The fixed line connections could be aggregated together for performance, while the 4G might be kept as a backup, or only used during times of very high load. One or more Ethernet ports could be configured to link to a separate 4G modem equipped router (of which DrayTek has many) for wireless backup. Or you could combine multiple available fibre, cable, VDSL connections together to provide better bandwidth. For example, one SFP+ port could handle a super fast 10Gbps fibre internet connection (or the maximum speed available), while a 2.5GbE or 1GbE port connects into a secondary 1Gbps connection, or other high speed internet. The Vigor3910 includes comprehensive load balancing and failover control, and supports High Availability so you can run a second router that steps in if the first has a hardware problem.Įight WAN connections might be overkill for most businesses, but for certain setups, multiple internet connections are very useful. So all up, you can configure up to eight WAN ports and if needed, enable massive internet throughput and connection redundancy.
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