technology founded 2004 headquarters piscataway new jersey u.s. area served worldwide key people rick stevenson ceo gary marks president bob waldie chairman products serial and network console servers management gateways slogan smart solutions for resilient networks website opengear.com opengear is a global computer network technology company headquartered in piscataway new jersey u.s. with r & d operations in brisbane qld australia . the company develops and manufactures smart out of band infrastructure management products aimed at allowing customers to securely access control and automatically troubleshoot and repair their it infrastructure remotely including network and data center management for resilient operation . opengear solutions provide always available wired and wireless secure remote access with failover capabilities to automatically restore site connectivity . this enables technical staff to provision maintain and repair infrastructure from anywhere at any time as if they were physically present thereby enabling both the operational costs and the risk of downtime to be reduced . 1 2 3 contents 1 products 2 history 3 references 4 external links products edit opengear s management products include cm7100 and im7200 advanced console servers that streamline management of network server and power infrastructure in data centers and colocation facilities ; 4 and acm5000 and acm5500 remote management gateways that deliver secure remote monitoring access and control of distributed networks and remote sites . 5 the acm500 resilience gateway provides out of band management of the it infrastructure while also providing backup lan and internet connectivity for remote sites via a built in cellular connection . 6 the lighthouse centralized management platform then provides a single point of scalable secure management for these opengear appliances and connected devices . 7 all opengear products provide a secure alternate out of band path to the managed infrastructure enabling accessibility even during system or network outage . 8 they monitor access and control all critical infrastructure at all local and remote sites from applications computers and networking equipment to security cameras power supplies and door sensors to proactively detect faults and remediate before they become failures . 9 opengear s products are built on a linux software base and the company is an active supporter of the open source community . 10 11 history edit 2004 opengear founded by the founders of snapgear 2005 started okvm open source project developing open source console and kvm management software 12 and released cm4000 and sd4000 product lines built on okvm technology 2006 started sdtcon open source project a multi platform ssh tunneling client and released sdtconnector built on sdtcon technology and released im4200 product line 13 2007 embedded nagios open source monitoring software 14 2008 embedded network ups tools and powerman for ups and pdu management and monitoring emd5000 environmental monitoring products . 2009 extended snmp support for all mainstream ups and pdu vendors for true vendor agnostic data center management . 2010 develops vcms virtual central management built on nagios 2010 reports sales growth of 50 % in 2010 . 15 2011 embeds arms in management gateways to give smart remote hands 16 2012 releases extended acm5000 with cellular and poe 17 and lighthouse central management 2012 reports revenue growth of 50 % in north america and 78 % in europe . 18 2013 releases im7200 product line with integrated fiber and 4glte 19 2014 releases cm7100 console server 20 2014 opengear releases a new version of lighthouse with a console gateway 21 2014 integrated failover to cellular functionality to all cellular enabled acm remote site management and im infrastructure management devices 22 2015 releases resilience gateway acm7004 product line with smart out of band management and failover to cellular integration . 23 24 25 references edit rust report three reasons to choose cellular out of band management february 9 2015 . http www.rustreport.com.au issues latestissue three reasons to choose cellular out of band management the datacenter journal coopervision finds strategic advantage in global deployment of opengear gateways for out of band access may 23 2012 . http www.datacenterjournal.com case studies coopervision finds strategic advantage in global deployment of opengear gateways for out of band access railway technology.com tmv control systems deploys opengear s cellular remote management november 26 2013 . http www.railway technology.com news newstmv control systems deploys opengears cellular remote management sourcesecurity.com opengear launches im7200 an infrastructure management solution at cisco live june 27 2013 . http www.sourcesecurity.com technology areas network ip news co 8019 ga co 420 ga npr.11172.html movingpackets.net opengear more than a dumb terminal server by john herbert november 19 2012 . http movingpackets.net 2012 11 19 opengear more than a dumb server youtube opengear resilience gateway product review september 9 2015 . https www.youtube.com watch v qmszsf0njiy vigilance opengear introduces the lighthouse central management system with enterprise scalability february 8 2013 . http www.vigilance securitymagazine.com industry news information security and management 2970 opengear introduces the lighthouse central management system with enterprise scalability technews opengear s out of band management approach ensures uptime control during outages january 10 2012 . http technews.tmcnet.com channels outofbandmanagementreport articles 253534 opengears out of band management approach ensures uptime.htm network computing opengear launches smart acm5000 and im4200 cellular routers and console servers at interop las vegas 2011 may 5 2011 . http www.networkcomputing.com networking opengear launches smart acm5000 and im4200 cellular routers and console servers at interop las vegas 2011 d d id 1232707 linuxplanet opengear focuses on open source hardware evolution of a business model july 7 2005 . http linuxplanet.com linuxplanet interviews 5922 1 isp planet the powerful remote niche april 25 2006 . http www.isp planet.com equipment 2006 opengear.html devx opengear open sources kvm february 14 2005 http www.devxnews.com article.php 3482981 computer technology review opengear releases high availability integrated infrastructure management gateways august 17 2006 . http wwpi.com opengear releases high availability integrated infrastructure management gateways linuxgismos.com linux based network access devices gain nagios monitoring february 20 2007 . http archive.linuxgizmos.com linux based network access devices gain nagios monitoring the var guy opengear reports major growth in 2010 march 23 2011 http thevarguy.com open source application software companies opengear reports major growth 2010 the var guy opengear adds automated response functionality to toolbox october 10 2011 http www.thevarguy.com 2011 10 10 opengear adds automated response functionality to toolbox sourcesecurity opengear releases customisable remote monitoring and management product february 23 2012 http www.sourcesecurity.com news articles co 8019 ga.7664.html the var guy opengear announces revenue reseller partner growth march 26 2013 http thevarguy.com open source application software companies opengear announces revenue reseller partner growth arn opengear infrastructure management solution arrives after three month delay october 30 2013 http www.arnnet.com.au article 530447 opengear infrastructure management solution arrives after three month delay linux journal new products december 22 2014 http www.linuxjournal.com slideshow new products 6 it world canada opengear polishes its lighthouse central management appliance january 27 2014 http www.itworldcanada.com article opengear polishes its lighthouse central management appliance 88735 fog computing opengear adds cellular failover capability november 20 2014 http www.fogcomputingworld.com topics fog computing articles 393977 opengear adds cellular failover capability.htm vigilance security magazine opengear introduces the resilience gateway june 12 2015 http www.sourcesecurity.com news articles co 8019 ga.7664.html impress media australia opengear releases new resilience gateway at cisco live melbourne february 15 2016 http www.impress.com.au newsroom opengear 1954 opengear releases new resilience gateway at cisco live melbourne.html network world new products of the week 11.09.2015 november 9 2015 http www.networkworld.com article 3001750 data center new products of the week 11 09 2015.html slide20 external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title opengear & oldid 730381428 categories 2004 establishments in new jerseysoftware companies based in new jerseymultinational companies headquartered in the united statesnetworking hardwarenetworking hardware 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