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SYDNEY, March 28 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ –

SDTConnector Wizard Automates RDP, VNC, Telnet and HTTP Access Over SSH for
Unified Secure Remote Management

Opengear, a leading supplier of IT infrastructure management solutions, has
today released its open source tool SDTConnector and its CM4001 console server
at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in Sydney, Australia. Opengear will have
both new products on display in their booth #G13a throughout the March 28-30
Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre event.

With the introduction of the SDTConnector, Opengear brings a unique Windows
and Java wizard that eliminate the complexities of configuring Secure Shell
(SSH) connections to tunnel other services securely across the Internet. These
services include Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Protocol, open source VNC
(UltraVNC, TightVNC, RealVNC), HTTP (Internet Explorer, Firefox) and Telnet for
text terminal access.

Today, SSH is the de-facto secure ‘remote-access’ standard which has been
used worldwide for more than a decade. SSH provides secure server
administration, secure file transfer and secure application connectivity. The
fact that SSH protocols are now IETF standards removes barriers that restricted
commercial and government adoption as previously SSH had no published standard
of conformance. SSH provides strong authentication and encryption (AES, 3DES)
with protection against man-in-the-middle attacks.

In addition, with the increased regulatory burdens (SOX, HIPAA) that
enterprises small to large are now encountering, the SDTConnector provides
these organizations with a solution that secures and simplifies remote access
and data exchange across multi-platform networks with built-in privacy
protection.

The SDTConnector can be used in tandem with Opengear’s CM4000 family of
secure console servers. CM4000 appliances incorporate an SSH server with
tunneling, allowing administrators to remotely and securely manage desktops,
servers, firewalls, routers, switches and even legacy serial devices that are
not IP accessible. In fact, the SDTConnector works flawlessly with a range of
SSH gateways including many third-party ‘OpenSSH-based’ servers.

Network managers will also find the SDTConnector is easy to configure.
Each SSH gateway can be configured to port forward (or tunnel) to an unlimited
number of hosts (PCs, firewalls, switches, power switches) on a local network,
permitting users to remotely and securely connect to several internal hosts
while limiting the number of public Internet IP addresses. For each host the
administrator selects the particular protocols they require to have port
forwarded by the gateway. If the administrator was managing a Cisco firewall
at the remote site, they may have HTTP (Web) and Telnet access forwarded to the
firewall. To access a Windows XP desktop at that site, then RDP would be
selected (or VNC for earlier Windows versions). To remotely administer a Linux
or UNIX server at the site, Telnet and VNC would be forwarded to those hosts.

The SDTConnector is also easy to install and operate. With the simple
click of a button a secure Remote Desktop connection is set up with the
selected remote host PC. With a real-time view of the desktop from the remote
PC, users have the exact same privileges and access rights as if seated in
front of the PC itself.

With another click of a button and using a new screen, the user’s default
browser will access information from the Web server on the office intranet.
Opengear’s SDTConnector user-friendly program wizard arms administrators with
secure access to their remote desktop PCs, enterprise data centres, distributed
branch office network gateways, remote metering equipment and industrial
control sites.

"The Opengear SDTConnector is taking already popular system administration
tools and expanding them for much wider use," said Bob Waldie, Chairman and CEO
of Opengear. "Non-expert users can now initiate secure remote connections
without needing to generate multiple downloads and contend with complex
configurations."

SDTConnector coupled with Opengear’s CM4001 entry-level appliances equips
solution providers with a highly secure and affordable means to support their
smaller clients’ applications, desktops, servers and networks. It also allows
them to set simple access policies which grant granular access to certain hosts
supplying a useful level of privacy compared to network-based VPNs. In
addition, the SDTConnector and SSH gateways are simpler to configure, deploy
and use when compared with SSL VPNs. Since the SDTConnector client software is
open source, there are no capital costs and OpenSSH server is available for
Windows, Linux and UNIX platforms. The Opengear SDTConnector is provided at no
cost to users of Opengear CM4000 console servers and SD4000 device server
solutions.

To access high resolution images of the Opengear SDTConnector, please visit
http://www.opengear.com.au/photos.html.

Users can download Opengear’s SDTConnector at
http://sdtcon.sourceforge.net/ or find out more by visiting
http://www.opengear.com.au/sdtconnector.html.

About Opengear
Opengear’s mission is to be the leader in cost-effective, out-of-band
remote control solutions by leveraging open source to make IT infrastructure
management affordable at the enterprise data center and beyond. Opengear’s
management team and engineering facilities are located at the company’s i.LAB
incubator in Brisbane, Australia and its sales headquarters reside in the
United States.

For more information, please call +617 3327 9828 or visit
http://www.opengear.com.au.

SOURCE: Opengear

CONTACT: Bob Waldie, Chairman & CEO of Opengear
+61 7 33279836, Fax +617 3217 8737, bob.waldie@opengear.com

Web site: http://www.opengear.com.au