President's Letter: August 2009

The NetGuardian 216 family is getting larger every day. For a number of years, the NetGuardian 216 has hit a "sweet spot" for monitoring our client's critical - yet lower capacity - sites. We have now migrated those monitoring capabilities into a number of extensions and integration products.

Extensions take the form of converting the 216 G2 into a 216 G3 with web browser and more analogs points (both external and integrated sensors). They also include repackaging to take advantages of other transport such as Fiber and T1. Why not extend your LAN to both report alarms and let other devices have access to the WAN?

As good as extensions are, it's the integration projects that really have an opportunity to "pick up" monitoring at a relatively small incremental cost - when you are on a completely different project. For example, if you wanted to have remote 110VAC power switching to reset a router AND bring back 16 alarm points from that site, you could use the NetGuardian 216 RP. Likewise, you could use our VOIP Orderwire with alarms and analog collection built-in.

This expansion of the NetGuardian 216 family is making it easier and easier to monitor your small critical sites.

Until next time,