February 10, 2016 – Opengear
Opengear will debut a new Resilience Gateway, with support for multi-carrier and dual SIMs to expand carrier diversity and increase network uptime, at next month’s Cisco Live show in Melbourne.

The ACM7004-5-LMx to debut at next month’s Cisco Live features integrated serial, Ethernet, and USB interfaces to enable Smart OOB™ management of all the IT infrastructure at the remote site. The new Resilience Gateway model also supports multi-carrier and dual SIMs to expand carrier diversity and increase network uptime. »

As an exhibitor at Cisco Live Melbourne 2016, Opengear will showcase its largest ever product portfolio to support the growing remote infrastructure management sector.

Opengear (http://www.opengear.com) is a leading provider of critical infrastructure management solutions through advanced console servers, remote management, monitoring, and cellular out-of-band products.

The Australian-founded company, with its CEO and R&D team in Brisbane, has the US as its largest market and is rapidly growing in EMEA.  Opengear has experienced double digit revenue global growth during 2015 and added dozens of new partners to its global distribution network. The company’s products are deployed at thousands of sites across the globe as part of resilient network and device management use cases including hundreds of deployments supporting ongoing managed services contracts.

With its new Resilience Gateway model – containing all the features that earned the original Resilience Gateway popularity among Cisco partners and global enterprises – Opengear continues to expand its successful product line to deliver new highly resilient networks and high value managed services.
The new Resilience Gateway model includes true out-of-band management via Opengear’s Smart OOB. This technology maintains secure access and control of all infrastructure at remote sites during network outages to minimise downtime, as well as smart, event-based auto-remediation of common problems. The Resilience Gateway ensures maximum WAN connectivity through Failover to Cellular™ to high-speed 4G LTE networks, with failover and fallback that is immediate, transparent, and automatic.

Embedded cellular with multi-carrier capabilities – as well as compatibility with global carriers – makes it possible to match the best cellular carrier to each remote site. Opengear’s Lighthouse CMS makes managing distributed enterprise locations efficient and easy to scale from a few locations up to global deployments.

Opengear will also showcase its full range of cellular-enabled ACM remote site management and IM infrastructure management devices offering transparent failover to 4G/3G cellular networks using simple and reliable IP Passthrough. This technology allows business operations to continue while IT teams resolve connectivity issues with the primary Internet connection.

The Opengear platform provides connectivity to routers, switches, firewalls, and PDU consoles to help administrators troubleshoot network problems and includes transparent « failback” when the primary connection is restored. Opengear has tested its technology extensively with Cisco devices and complements Smart OOB capabilities to monitor critical network and power devices, alerting admins to important events.

“Our partners delivering enhanced managed services and our community of end-customers require distributed networks that are resilient with remote sites accessible even when a primary connection goes down,” says Brendan Walsh, Opengear’s Sales Director for Asia Pacific, who will attend Cisco Live. Melbourne.

“The new Resilience Gateway portfolio recognises the wide diversity in connectivity scenarios. With seven core product families and dozens of configuration options within each, Opengear is now clearly the supplier with the most complete and feature-rich line-up serving the critical infrastructure management segment. 2016 will see us continue to develop innovative new technologies and products to meet the needs of our customers.”

Opengear will demonstrate its full product portfolio from Stand E23 at Cisco Live, the flagship technical training, networking and education event that runs from March 8-11, in Melbourne, Australia.

For media assistance or to interview Brendan Walsh, call John Harris on 08 8431 4000 or email john@impress.com.au.