Avocent

The Avocent Solution comprises four main elements

• Centralised Management Software - Consolidate access and control of your IT assets from a single, secure management interface. Reduce complexity and downtime with a fast and easy method to access your infrastructure.
• Serial Console - Advanced console servers provide secure, remote access and out-of-band management to IT devices and console port management to IT assets from anywhere in the world
• Keyboard, Video, Mouse (KVM) - Local or remote access to your heterogeneous servers. Authenticate, troubleshoot and manage your servers from anywhere. BIOS level control.
• Power Control - Remote power management for servers and network and IPMI enabled devices. IPMI maintains an inventory of components and their operational status and logs events and malfunctions, allowing you to power off or remotely reboot a device.

Avocent International is the leading supplier of connectivity solutions for enterprise data centers, service providers, SMB and financial institutions worldwide. Branded products include switching, extension, intelligent platform management interface (IPMI), remote access and video display solutions

Avocent solutions are designed for IT administrators who need to easily troubleshoot, reboot or power cycle servers, serial and network devices, avoiding the need for costly on-site engineer visits. Providing a single browser access to securely access and control heterogeneous environments to reduce complexity and TCO.

Latest technology developments include Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI), Serial over Lan and Virtual Media which allowing administrators to remotely perform tasks such as diagnostic testing, file transfer and OS and application patches.

Additional information can be found at http://www.avocent.co.uk/