[AusNOG] Summary Re: 3G Broadband OOB network suggestions

[Anand Kumria]

Hi,

Thank you to everyone who replied. I had a quite a number of responses!

Sorry it has taken so long to compile this summary.

 - I had *many* (many) recommendations for OpenGear (over 10) products.
 - Multiple recommendations for: Telstra Next-G (with telstra.extranat APN)
 - And a recommendations for each of: Internode, Exetel and Dodo
 - Pretty much everyone recommended not having anything that need to
be plugged in/out, but just constantly on the network.

I have a bit more research to do, thanks for all your help.

Regards,
Anand

On 18 January 2012 11:29, Anand Kumria <akumria at acm.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm sure most of you have an OOB network, and I'm now finding I have
> some clients where I now have the same need.
>
> So I'm looking for some solutions, I'm tending towards 3G Broadband
> but am open to others; rough requirements
>
>  - works with Windows, Mac OS *and* Linux (I can leave some on the
> client site, and have them install into any available computer to
> diagnose their internal network that way)
>  - provides a static IP (v4 or v6 acceptable) address
>  - at least 1G / month; with options to increase should a 'problem' occur.
>
> Slightly different use cases at different clients:
>
>  - for some, it'll be used to monitor both internal / external
> networks without perturbing them
>  - for others, it'll be used as a means of last resort remote access
> during an outage
>
> Unfortunately none of the clients are large enough to warrant dual-homing.
>
> Replies welcome off-list and I'll summarise responses back to the list
> in a few days.
>
> Thanks,
> Anand
>
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