Opengear tunes up out-of-band connectivity for enterprise SD-WAN and edge

Opengear is thinking out of the box with its out-of-band (OOB) management solution for software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) deployments. OOB management solutions aren't new—they've been used for many years by cable and telco providers, as well as inside data centers—but can play an increasingly important role as network elements are moved to the edge of networks. OOB systems provide a secure, alternate path so that a network engineer can reach the console port of any network device even when the production network is disrupted. OOB can also be used to configure and provision devices for remote office deployments. Other traditional uses for OOB include monitoring, remediation and disaster recovery. Opengear's NetOps Automation Platform is using OOB for the same use cases after they have been automated.