30 Jun 2016
Opengear successfully achieved Cisco compatibility certification with Cisco 2900 Series Routers

Opengear, a provider of critical infrastructure management solutions through advanced console servers, remote management, monitoring, and cellular out-of-band products, recently announced that its Resilience Gateway has successfully achieved Cisco compatibility certification with Integrated Services Routers - Cisco 2900 Series Routers. The Internet of Everything (IoE) continues to bring together people, processes, data and things to enhance the relevancy of network connections. As a Preferred Solution Partner in the Cisco® Solution Partner Programme, Opengear is able to quickly create and deploy solutions to enhance the capabilities, performance, and management of the network to capture value in the IoE.

Maximize IT Resilience

Designed to ensure uptime at branch offices and remote network sites, Opengear’s Resilience Gateway delivers features designed to maximize IT resilience. The award-winning solution offers true out-of-band management via Smart OOB™, enabling administrators to maintain network access, monitoring, and control even during infrastructure failures and outages. The Resilience Gateway offers intelligent and proactive automatic responses for identifying and remediating issues before they cost businesses money.

The Resilience Gateway also safeguards WAN resilience through Opengear’s embedded Failover to Cellular™ capability. Utilising Wi-Fi and 4G LTE connections to provide immediate and transparent failover and failback operations with zero need for manual intervention, this key feature maintains business continuity by ensuring uninterrupted availability even when primary connections go down. Cellular connections are available (and certified) through several major carriers. Enterprise-grade security, environmental monitoring, and Zero Touch Provisioning automation round out the Resilience Gateway’s capabilities for maintaining network resilience and uptime for businesses.

Cisco Solution Partner Program

“Always-on connectivity – which the Resilience Gateway is designed to provide – is essential to the operations of so many businesses and products today, especially as the Internet of Everything grows,” said Gary Marks, President, Opengear. “We continue to be proud of our longstanding relationship with Cisco and the Cisco Solution Partner Program, and are pleased to see the Resilience Gateway be our latest product to achieve Cisco compatibility certification.”

The Cisco Solution Partner Program, part of the Cisco Partner Ecosystem, unites Cisco with third-party independent hardware and software vendors to deliver integrated solutions to joint customers. As a Preferred Solution Partner, Opengear has achieved Cisco compatibility certification on at least one solution and can provide its customers with 24-hour, 7-days-a-week customer support.