Opengear is a global

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technology company headquartered in

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, U.S., with R&D operations in

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, Australia and production in Sandy, UT. 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

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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. In December 2019, Opengear was acquired by

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Products

Opengear's management products include IM7200 advanced

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that streamline management of network, server, and power infrastructure in data centers and colocation facilities; and ACM7000 remote management gateways that deliver secure remote monitoring, access and control of distributed networks and remote sites. The Lighthouse Centralized Management platform then provides a single point of scalable, secure management for these Opengear appliances and connected devices. The Opengear NetOps Console Server combine out-of-band management and NetOps tools in a single appliance, minimizing human intervention and simplifying repetitive tasks. All Opengear products provide a secure alternate

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path to the managed infrastructure, enabling accessibility even during system or network outage. 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. Opengear's products are built on a

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software base, and the company is an active supporter of the

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community.

History

*2004 Opengear founded by the founders of SnapGear *2005 Starte
okvm open source project
developing open source console and KVM management software and released CM4000 and SD4000 product lines (built on okvm technology) *2007 Embedded

Nagios Nagios Core , formerly known as Nagios, is a free and open-source computer-software application that monitors systems, networks and infrastructure. Nagios offers monitoring and alerting services for servers, switches, applications and services. ...

open source monitoring software. *2008 Embedded

Network UPS Tools Network UPS Tools (NUT) is a suite of software component designed to monitor power devices, such as uninterruptible power supplies, power distribution units, solar controllers and servers power supply units. Many brands and models are supported ...

and

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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

*2010 Reports sales growth of 50% in 2010. *2011 Embeds ARMS in management gateways to give smart remote hands *2012 Releases extended ACM5000 with cellular and PoE and Lighthouse Central Management *2012 Reports revenue growth of 50% in North America and 78% in Europe. *2013 Releases IM7200 product line, with integrated fiber and 4GLTE *2014 Introduced the arrival of the IM4200-2-DAC-X2-GS to its IM4200 remote infrastructure management line of products, certified by Sprint. *2014 Releases CM7100 Console Server *2014 Opengear releases a new version of Lighthouse with a Console Gateway *2014 Integrated Failover To Cellular functionality to all cellular-enabled ACM remote-site management and IM infrastructure management devices *2015 Releases Resilience Gateway (ACM7004) product line, with Smart Out-Of-Band management and Failover to Cellular integration. *2017 Lighthouse 5 Centralized Management software platform released *2018 Operations Manager OM2200 appliance for NetOps management released *2018 NetOps Automation Platform launched, to streamline NetOps workflows *2019 NetOps Console Server launched, combining NetOps tools and Out-of-Band in a single appliance *2019 Opengear purchased by Digi International

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