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Out-of-Band: More Than A Safety Net?

The Road to Resilience webinar series kicked off with “Out-of-Band: More Than A Safety Net?” The discussion was hosted by Roy Chua, Principal at AvidThink, and featured Gary Marks, President of Opengear, and Todd Rychecky, VP Sales Americas. The panel talked through several topics, covering the evolution of Out-of-Band management...

Embedded Cellular vs External Dongles: Don’t Get Left Hanging

Enterprises rely on out-of-band management and wired network fail-over using cellular to deliver up-time and quick recovery in the case of a failure. When choosing between embedded or external dongle-based cellular solutions, one might be tempted by the allure of the low price points of dongles. But this thinking is penny-wise and pound-foolish.

The New Americas 2020 Value-Added Reseller Partner Program

Bryan Keepers Director, Channel Sales Americas Opengear's channel program has continued to see exponential growth over the past few years. To continue to facilitate this and show our commitment to our partners, we've built a new Americas Value-Added Reseller Partner Program. Launched on March 1st, the enhanced Partner Program includes...

The Downtime Dilemma: What Shook Social Media?

Something went wrong. That’s the message that billions of users saw last week when the world’s largest social media giant went dark for hours.

What Retail Networking can learn from the Pinewood Derby

The Pinewood Derby is an annual tradition of young boy scouts around the world, where they build motorless racecars from a block of wood and become pit crew chiefs for an evening of grand prix excitement. I recently helped my son build his very first pinewood derby car. Together, we picked...

In the News: Hundreds of thousands of Cisco switches attacked

In the last couple of weeks, there have been multiple reports of hackers exploiting a security vulnerability in Cisco Smart Install Client tool to attack hundreds of thousands of network switches. Cisco had previously identified the vulnerability, published an advisory and provided patches. As is often the case, it appears...

How the Presidio Exchange Forum 2014 Learned About Cellular Out-Of-Band Failover

I recently participated in the Presidio Exchange 2014 forum. Presidio holds this event as a focused training and knowledge transfer opportunity allowing the Presidio engineering and sales teams to meet with key partners for in-depth training sessions and hands-on labs. This was my first time attending Presidio’s national conference and...

REST easy with our new API

A Representational State Transfer or RESTful API uses standard web methods (e.g. HTTP GET/POST for CRUD operations), conventions (e.g. URIs to select represented resources, HTTP response codes as return codes, cookies for session authentication tokens) and data structures (JSON, XML) to allow applications to operate or interoperate programmatically over the...

A Smart Solution For SD-WAN Deployments

Software Defined Wide Area Networks (SD-WAN) are being used by organizations to reduce costs and improve flexibility needed for bandwidth demands. Dynamically sharing network bandwidth across a variety of connections, traffic is able to be redirected to the most cost-effective route like broadband or LTE. SD-WAN is more than just...

Opengear Launches Enhanced Technical Certification Program

EDISON, N.J., (February 22, 2024) -- Opengear, a Digi International company (NASDAQ, DGII, www.digi.com) and provider of secure and Smart Out of Band management solutions, today announced the launch of its enhanced Technical Certification Program, aimed at empowering IT professionals and network engineers in the Opengear network of channel and distribution organizations with...

Opengear Enhances Remote Access with Smart Management Fabric (SMF) and Dynamic Routing-based IP Access

EDISON, N.J., (February 15, 2024) -- Opengear, a Digi International Inc. company (NASDAQ, DGII, www.digi.com) and provider of secure and Smart Out of Band management solutions, today launched Smart Management Fabric, extending the value and functionality of Opengear’s Network Resilience platform with dynamic routing-based IP access. Lighthouse Automation Edition (AE)...

Why Java is Not Your Friend

Oracle’s Java is one of the most widely used languages in software. Used to create applications, most computers already have it and if not, many users have downloaded a program with Java runtime or  have used its web plugin which allows applications to run in a browser. It’s even built...