Slough, UK: Opengear will offer the first European public demonstration of its Smart OOB™ platform including a new Failover to Cellular™ (F2C) feature that ensures uninterrupted connectivity for remote networks during primary WAN downtime. Opengear’s Smart OOB™ combined with F2C enables companies and managed service providers to monitor, access, manage and automatically remediate their remote networks, from anywhere, to improve operational efficiency and resilience.
Opengear (http://www.opengear.com) is a leading provider of critical infrastructure management solutions through Smart OOB™ based advanced console servers, remote management, monitoring, failover and cellular out-of-band products.
The new Failover to Cellular™ capabilities are now available in Opengear’s cellular-enabled ACM remote site management and IM infrastructure management devices and includes transparent failover to 4G/3G cellular networks using simple and reliable IP Passthrough. The technology allows business operations to continue while IT staff resolve connectivity issues with the primary Internet connection.
The Opengear platform integrates seamlessly with existing IT systems and network infrastructure, with automatic failover and transparent "failback” when the primary connection is restored. The technology has been tested extensively with Cisco devices and complements Smart OOB™ capabilities to monitor critical network and power devices, alerting admins to important events.
“The cost of network downtime has never been higher,” said Rick Stevenson, CEO, Opengear. “Connectivity hiccups – let alone full-blown outages – commonly result in million-dollar revenue losses and affect virtually all industries. Add to that the proliferation of connected devices vying for always-on connectivity and even more stress will be put on networks. How businesses respond is critical; with Opengear’s new Failover to Cellular™ and Smart OOB™ technology, we’re providing an unparalleled solution for ensuring IT resilience with maximum uptime. Network connection failures happen, but they don’t have to be crippling – or even noticeable – with Opengear.”
Opengear has grown its channel partners from under 30 in 2012 to over 75 as of the end of 2014, of which around 40% are also Cisco channel partners. “Serving the Cisco community is a major focus for Opengear and our attendance and demonstration of F2C at Cisco Live is part of our continuing commitment to continually advance our product set with innovative new features that align with both existing needs and emerging trends across the wider industry,” Stevenson adds.
A10 Networks Collaborates with Cisco to Deliver Dynamic Application Networking Services
SAN JOSE, Calif.: A10 Networks has announced the integration of its Thunder Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs) with Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) fabric. Offering dynamic L4-L7 application networking services, this joint solution enables enterprises to amplify their data center output by automatically provisioning application delivery and security services with a significant increase in both allocation speed and business agility – all at a reduced cost.
“Our vision to deliver on-demand, policy-based mechanisms for dynamic L4-L7 services in a cloud environment closely aligns with the streamlined application delivery cycles of the Cisco ACI common policy framework,” said Raj Jalan, CTO of A10 Networks. “By combining A10 Thunder ADC and Cisco ACI solutions, we are able to provide enterprises with rich application delivery and security capabilities in a shared infrastructure.”
The open framework of Cisco ACI enables ecosystem partners such as A10 to seamlessly interoperate with Cisco ACI fabric. Together, the Cisco ACI and A10 Thunder ADC solutions provide an automated approach to networking services based on application-specific policies that allow data center applications to dynamically scale on demand. Furthermore, the ACI and Thunder ADC synthesis empowers Cisco and A10 to independently innovate and address pervasive requirements of network programmability. As a result, more advanced ADC and security functionality such as service chaining, WAF, SSLi and GSLB will be integrated with Cisco ACI.
“Rapidly evolving application paradigms and associated infrastructures require the seamless integration of application network services into today’s data center fabrics,” said Soni Jiandani, SVP, Marketing, Cisco. “The integration of Cisco ACI with the combined performance of A10 Networks’ Thunder ADCs and ACOS operating system programmatic interfaces makes this scale and agility a reality.”