Executive summary:
- The Opengear ACM7000 Resilience Gateway offers branch gateway routing and out-of-band management access, along with some automation capabilities for individual tasks and workflows.
- As a Gen 2 solution, the ACM7000 has limited third-party integrations, so your automation capabilities are restricted to built-in playbooks and add-on NetOps modules, with Zero Touch Provisioning locked behind a Lighthouse account upgrade.
- The ACM7000 also can’t run third-party software for additional edge networking and resilience solutions like AI/machine learning, next-generation firewalls (NGFWs), and Secure Access Service Edge (SASE).
- The Nodegrid Services Router (SR) product line from ZPE Systems addresses many of these limitations with Gen 3 OOB on a vendor-neutral platform.
- Nodegrid’s modern, open-architecture Linux kernel supports virtualization and containers to directly host third-party software for automation, monitoring, security, recovery, and more.
- Nodegrid’s centralized management software is available as an on-premises or cloud-based, as-a-service solution, and it’s easily extensible with third-party solutions to provide consolidated, 360-degree control, visibility, and resilience.
Why replace the Opengear ACM7000 Resilience Gateway?
The Opengear ACM7000 Resilience Gateway combines branch gateway routing features with serial console out-of-band (OOB) management, consolidating networking and remote management functionality in a single device.Opengear’s Smart OOBTM allows the creation of a dedicated control plane with isolated management infrastructure (IMI). This OOB solution supports automation via scripts and add-on NetOps modules, but Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP) and automation over IP-based management interfaces require an upgraded “Automation” edition of Opengear’s Lighthouse management software.
Opengear ACM7000 Resilience Gateway alternative options
ZPE Systems offers a full suite of vendor-neutral branch and edge networking solutions that serve as direct replacements for – or alternatives to – the ACM7000. Nodegrid Services Routers, or SRs, are all-in-one devices delivering Gen 3 OOB management, 5G/4G cellular failover, branch gateway routing and networking, virtualization and container hosting, and edge computing capabilities. Nodegrid’s open, x86-64bit Linux-based Nodegrid OS allows easy integrations with third-party automation and orchestration software like Ansible, Puppet, and RESTful APIs. Nodegrid can even extend ZTP and other automation capabilities to legacy and mixed-vendor end devices over the out-of-band connection. Nodegrid also supports Guest OS and containers, so you can host everything needed to manage, troubleshoot, and recover remote deployments on the OOB network. Nodegrid provides the perfect foundation for a resilience system that enables companies to continue delivering core services during ransomware attacks, network outages, and other adverse events. Nodegrid’s extensible, open platform streamlines branch management, scaling, and resilience.
Comparing Nodegrid replacement options for the ACM7000 Resilience Gateway
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Opengear ACM7000 Resilience Gateway replacement SKUs
The following table provides a list of ZPE’s Nodegrid SR product SKUs that serve as the best direct replacements for the corresponding Opengear ACM7000 products. Depending on your specific requirements, you may find that other Nodegrid products work better for your use case. Contact ZPE Systems for more assistance finding alternative solutions.