Functionality for critical out-of-band infrastructure management

The Lantronix SLC 8000 provides IT managers with future-proof critical infrastructure management capabilities. In addition, the company recently announced a new firmware version 7.2.0.0 that is compliant with the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2. FIPS 140-2 is a security standard for IT systems that is mandatory for U.S. and Canadian government and military applications that use cryptographic-based security. This robust encryption is also suitable in finance, healthcare and other commercial applications where protection of privacy is critical.

“With its high density USB console support in a first-of-its-kind modular form factor, Lantronix’ SLC 8000 console manager has proven to be a suitable solution for enhancing our test lab and engineering efforts,” said Bill Yang, Manager, Software Development Engineering, Cisco Systems. “The Lantronix SLC 8000 was easy to deploy, and provided a flexible solution to our test set-ups, enabling our geographically-distributed test labs to collaborate more efficiently and effectively.”

“In a market comprised of many console server products, Lantronix has differentiated itself in today’s IT infrastructure space with the USB I/O module for its new SLC 8000 console manager,” commented Doris Yeh, Vice President of Technology and Strategic Alliances, Mirapath. “We believe the SLC 8000, with its modular design, latest firmware enhancements, USB support and seamless integration with the Lantronix vSLM centralised management platform, fills a much needed gap in the market.”

“Modern IT equipment being introduced into the global market have both RS-232 (Serial) and USB console ports or only USB console ports, making it necessary for out-of-band management devices to support any combination of these connections without requiring forklift or rip-and-replace upgrades,” said Vishal Kakkad, Director of Product Marketing, Lantronix. “The Lantronix SLC 8000 delivers exactly that and helps data centre managers reduce downtime and operational costs with robust features that can scale within any network deployment and policy architecture.”