D-Link Offers Holiday Gift Ideas to Enhance the Digital Home Lifestyle

Nov. 13, 2006 - D-Link, the end-to-end networking solutions provider for consumers and business, today announced a complete line of digital home products that make perfect gifts for the holiday season. If you are wondering what gifts to give this holiday season, these D-Link "digital tech gifts" offer inexpensive options sure to put smiles on the faces of your gadget-loving friends and relatives.

Known for producing trend-setting consumer electronic products that are high quality, attractive and affordable, D-Link suggests the following digital home gear for keeping your favorite people connected, whether on the go or relaxing in front of their home entertainment centers and PCs:

Wireless Home Networking Wonders

• The D-Link Xtreme N Gigabit Router (DIR-655), RangeBooster N 650 Router (DIR- 635) and RangeBoosterN Router (DIR-625) sport the industry's fastest and furthest- reaching draft 802.11n wireless networking technology with a slew of cutting-edge features. Plug the devices into a cable or DSL modem and you have high-speed Internet access to all the PCs, media players and game consoles. Perfect for secured sharing of photos, files, music, videos, printers and network storage. MSRP: DIR-655. $179.99; DIR-635, $159.99, and DIR-625 $129.99.
  
• The D-Link RangeBooster G Multifunction Print Server (DPR-1260) allows you to wirelessly share up to four USB multifunction printers on a home or dorm room network. Tested with more than 100 different printer models, it also connects any Ethernet-enabled device, such as a computer, digital video recorder (DVR) or network-attached storage (NAS), to a wireless network. MSRP: $119.99.
  
• Take advantage of the benefits of both worlds - wired and wireless - with D-Link's 200 megabits per second PowerLine HD Network Kit (DHP-301).* Now you can extend your home network by using the existing electrical wiring already in your house or apartment, and enjoy high-definition media streaming, online gaming and other next- generation digital home applications. It's a great complement to a wireless home network. MSRP: $189.99.
  
• Give the gift of true media sharing in the home whether you are at your PC or TV. Give the new D-Link MediaLounge Wireless HD Media Player (DSM-520)*. When connected to a home network, either wireless or wired, it can stream music, photos and HD videos to home entertainment systems quickly and with the highest quality technology has to offer. MSRP: $249.99.
  

Phone Fun

• The D-Link i2eye Broadband VideoPhone (DVC-1100) is an ideal way to visit the grandparents, kids away at college and distant relatives during the holidays - without leaving your living room and without the cost of transportation. With a unit installed in both places, the full-featured desktop videoconferencing device used an existing television to conduct smooth video phone calls. MSRP: $249.99 each.
  

Mobile Solutions

• For the traveling businessperson in your life, you can't go wrong giving the D-Link AirPlus G Wireless Pocket Router/AP (DWL-G730AP) this holiday season. It is designed to work in conference rooms, hotels, airports, train stations - anywhere you need to go online. You can create a wireless connection in the "AP mode", share an internet connection in the "router mode" and connect to an existing wireless network in the "wireless client mode". And switching between all three is possible with a switch of a button. MSRP: $69.99.
  
• Whoever gets the D-Link Wi-Fi Phone (DPH-540, 541) will enjoy the freedom and cost- savings of combining wireless connectivity and Voice over Internet Protocol communications on a sleek portable flip-style phone. It looks like a cell phone and has many features of a cell phone. The big difference, however, is that home and business users with a VoIP service plan can significantly reduce their local and long distance phone charges compared to standard telephone service. MSRP: $249.99.
  

Store & Share

•  If you've got a virtual library of family photos, videos and other precious data stored on your PCs and laptops around the house, you probably want to share them. Now you can with the new award-winning D-Link 2-Bay Network Storage Enclosure (DNS-323). Using the latest technology in high-volume storage (up to a terabyte of memory on two 3.5- inch SATA hard drives which are sold separately) and high-speed data transfer (a gigabit Ethernet connection is built in), the DNS-323 lets you stream files throughout your home network. MSRP: $599.99 before rebates.

 Security First

• Maybe the ultimate gift this season is the gift of a safe and secure home network. D-Link recently introduced SECURESPOT (DSD-150) to ensure that unwanted Internet content does not invade your family domain. Supporting up to four computers with the initial one- year subscription of $99.99, it is the first hardware, software and web-based solution to combat damaging viruses and spam, annoying popups and dangerous content. This multi- layered security device with extensive parental controls is housed in a small box that installs between a broadband modem and a router, providing extra firewall protection. After the first year, the cost is $79.99 per year, and additional licenses are available for $19.99 each.
  

All D-Link consumer products are available at selected computer stores and retail outlets and at D-link's online retail store, www.dlinkshop.com.

SOURCE 2006 D-Link Corporation/D-Link Systems, Inc.