Opengear, an infrastructure-management solutions company, announced a new central management system Wednesday.

Opengear Lighthouse allows network engineers and system administrators to centrally manage their Opengear infrastructure management and console server appliances and attached IT networking gear in their data center or at remote sites.

The product release includes new hardware offerings and updates the previous software package to version 4.0.

The Opengear Lighthouse product line consists of either a software appliance, which can be deployed to virtualized environments, or a choice of two hardware appliance solutions.

Two new rack-mounted Dell servers offer a hardware platform in standard and enterprise models. Both software and hardware appliances may operate in standalone or redundant configurations.

The Lighthouse software offers management of corporate out-of-band networks. The latest release builds on Opengear's cellular Call Home technology, allowing customers using Opengear appliances to centrally manage and access their IT infrastructure, whether they are reachable over the production network, through out-of-band cellular or through dialup connections.

The solution streamlines provisioning, maintenance and remediation of distributed equipment.

Rick Stevenson, CEO of Opengear, said central management was a key feature in any distributed network. “Our new Lighthouse solutions provide better hardware options, new features targeted at improving usability, and an architecture which can scale from small to large organizations with many remote sites,” he said.