[AusNOG] Terminal Servers

[Brad Peczka]

I'll drop a +1 for the Opengear lineup here. Have a number of them installed in some weird and wonderful places, and they've never failed when they're needed.

Regards,
-Brad.
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From: AusNOG [ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Paul Reece [preece at staff.fasthit.net.au]
Sent: Monday, 17 March 2014 8:25 AM
To: Raymond, Adam; AusNOG at lists.ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Terminal Servers

Hi Adam,

Take a look at the product line-up from Opengear (www.opengear.com/au<http://www.opengear.com/au>)

Quite reasonably priced too IMHO.



Regards,
Paul.

From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Raymond, Adam
Sent: Monday, 17 March 2014 7:53 AM
To: AusNOG at lists.ausnog.net
Subject: [AusNOG] Terminal Servers

Hi,

                At my place of work we have a number of sites that still use terminal servers for last ditch access to routers and switches. These terminal servers are getting pretty old and they are fairly hard to support. We want to keep terminal servers in the network, so I am looking at replacing them. Does anyone have any suggestions on a good vendor for terminal servers or what sort of solution fills a similar niche?

                As an aside, are terminal servers in widespread use still? Do people see them as still valid. I believe they are, mostly as they allow you the ability to watch a device reboot and give you remote access to a device independent of any configuration on the device, something an ethernet management port cannot do. What do other people think?

Adam Raymond