Managing remote data centers,
colocation facilities, and network exchange points can often leave network
administrators at their wits' end – and that's before the network connection goes down. The last thing
administrators need to worry about is the reliability of their connection, but
unfortunately many of them find themselves spending far too much time ensuring
a connection or scrambling to re-connect a downed network.
A new product aims to fix this state
of affairs. The Opengear
IM7200, a brand-new product family introduced at Cisco
Live on June 25, provides administrators with a powerful and reliable
out-of-band system that should ease many of their worries about network
failures. It allows for secure remote management of all rack infrastructure
from anywhere in the world, via a single pane of glass.
The IM7200 is the first out-of-band
infrastructure management system to combine 4G LTE and fiber, providing a degree
of flexibility and speed that is unmatched in today's market. The IM7200 allows for
the secure remote management of network, server, and power infrastructure in
high-density computing environments, ensuring that businesses can keep critical
systems running smoothly even in the event of network outages or impairment.
The integration of 4G LTE gives the
IM7200 unparalleled speed and responsiveness, allowing network outages to be
diagnosed and troubleshot within seconds of the incident via Opengear's integrated
Auto-Response system.
And the IM7200's incorporation of
dual SFP fiber and/or gigabit Ethernet interfaces gives the IM7200 the ability
to operate on a fiber-based management network, reducing the
points of failure associated with fiber media converters or top-of-rack
management switch solutions. The fiber interface also reduces total cost of
ownership, and improves reliability.
Other
features include advanced console management; a state-of-the-art platform
driven by a 1 GHz ARM processor that's twice as fast as that of any competing
product; software configurable serial ports and integrated hardware that
eliminates the need for costly additional appliances; and centralized
management for easy enterprise-wide deployments.
Opengear
has been in the remote infrastructure management business for nearly a decade,
and we truly believe that the IM7200 represents a major advance in helping companies
maintain business continuity – whether the network is running or not.
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