Opengear Reports Record Order Bookings in Q4 2008

SANDY, UT--(Marketwire - February 24, 2009) - Opengear (www.Opengear.com), a leading provider of next-generation console server solutions, today announced that it has seen record order bookings and growth through the economic downturn.

"The economic conditions are accelerating open source adoption in businesses around the world and our console server products have enjoyed tremendous success with our new open source tools for power management," said Todd Rychecky, VP Sales and Marketing of Opengear. "Traditional console servers are limited in their functionality but by bringing together leading open source solutions from projects including Nagios, NUT and PowerMan, Opengear is making a product that allows for more efficient management of everything you find in a datacenter including routers, switches, servers, firewalls, uninterruptible power supplies, power distribution units and environmental monitoring devices."

Opengear experienced record order bookings in the fourth quarter of 2008 ending December 31, 2008 and has started off the first quarter of 2009 with what will be a record first quarter for the company despite the economic slowdown. Opengear attributes their success to an increase in new channel partners and customers, leading edge marketing initiatives, next generation product features and the best customer service and technical support in the console server market space. Opengear recently received industry accolades, voted as one of the top 25 open source channel vendors in the Open Source 50 report, compiled by Nine Lives Media and IT channel site TheVARGuy.com

Customers such as Banff International Research Station in Banff, Alberta, Canada reaffirm these sentiments and further validate why Opengear has been successful over the past year. "Opengear has provided BIRS with not only a great product for secure remote management of our servers through the CM4008 but it has also demonstrated outstanding customer service," said Brent Kearney, systems analyst with the Banff International Research Station. "Opengear has continued to surpass our expectations as we expand and order new solutions from them. Highly recommended!"

Opengear expects 2009 to be a record year. "It seems every day another customer comes to us from one of our competitors and exclaims, 'Why did it take me so long to find you,'" says Todd Rychecky, VP Sales and Marketing of Opengear. "We solve problems with open source that our competitors cannot or choose not to do and in this type of economic climate it is the kiss of death for any organization."

About Opengear

Opengear (www.opengear.com) designs and manufactures next-generation console server solutions for secure remote access and control of network devices such as routers, switches, servers, firewalls, uninterruptible power supplies, power distribution units and environmental monitoring devices in distributed networks. Opengear's open source platform gives network managers and system integrators the most flexible, extensible, console server solution on the market today for serial console ports, service processors, power solutions and environmentals. Opengear provides network managers the virtual hands to access networking equipment in remote offices, data centers and colocations all over the world. Equipment can be remotely configured, rebooted and power cycled. Opengear's extensive support for out-of-band management solutions ensures our customer access and control even when the main network is down. The result is a drastic reduction in the need for expensive on-site technical staff, on-site visits and an accompanying acceleration to problem resolution and critical network availability.

Contact Information: Contact: Bret Clement 303.462.3057