Opengear, a provider of next-generation console server and remote management solutions, has been awarded PTS Type Certification Review Board (PTCRB (News - Alert)) certification for the cellular GSM model of its ACM5000 management appliance family.

Officials with Opengear said that the PTCRB certification is mandated by network operators for marketing GSM-based cellular products in the Americas and many European countries.

PTCRB is a global organization providing an independent evaluation process for GSM/UMTS (News - Alert) certification.

Company officials said that the cellular ACM5004-G supports all GSM networks including GSM, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, HSDPA and HSPA across the widest range of frequency bands – 800/900/1800/1900/2100 MHz.

“With the certification, Opengear (News - Alert) is the first vendor to deliver a truly global cellular 3.5G wireless multifunction appliance,” said Bob Waldie, founder and CEO of Opengear, in a statement.

Waldie said that U.S. enterprise can deploy the same ACM5004-G solution at home and in their overseas sites, eliminating the need for country-specific models.

According to company officials, Opengear’s ACM5004-G can be used in a wide range of secure (HTTPS, SSH – FIP140-2) remote monitoring applications to maintain the uptime of servers, routers, switches, power, battery backup and environmental sensors.

It has several electrical interfaces allowing it to communicate across Ethernet, RS232, USB, dry contact sensors and digital I/O ports.

Company officials claimed that Opengear’s ability to fail-over from wireline to cellular 3G makes it an excellent out-of-band recovery appliance when main Internet connections are down and critical assets are disconnected.

The ACM5004-G is also very capable in securely tunneling critical data from remote devices (serial, USB or Digital I/O) for M2M applications in a wide range of industries such as energy, financial, point of sale, vending, gaming and so on.

According to company officials, the ACM5004-G with its PTCRB certification gives solution providers an easy and secure entry into global cellular markets for remote infrastructure management, M2M and VPN router applications.