Retail, Remote Office and POP environments normally do not have dedicated IT support staff available. So who will monitor and repair network and server downtime issues? Can your business afford to turn away customers or let employees sit idle during network or server downtime events?
ZPE Systems' NodeGrid Serial Console (NSC) provides smart, consolidated out-of-band access and control of your retail and remote office IT equipment. In case your store's router goes down, NSC automatically senses the network failure and activates your choice of cellular modem, over a cellular carrier and mobile plan of your choice. ZPE does not lock you into one or two predetermined cellular providers.
NSC simultaneously provision a seamless SSL VPN experience with your choice of static, dynamic or private IP address - so you don't have to wonder what your store's new IP address is during a severe IT breakdown event. ZPE's Instant SSL VPN creates a tunnel back to corporate with the same exact IP address as before so your customers and employees are no worse for wear.
In fact, NSC offers more than just SSL client & server VPN capability to retail and remote office customers. Want to consolidate IT hardware in each store? Add backup capability? Add more IP addresses, Wi-Fi and networking capacity?
Retail and remote sites benefit from NodeGrid Serial Console's unique features below, not available from competitors' consoles:
- Enterprise graded cellular modem - your choice of carrier, model, features and plans. Ideal for network failover and redundancy at globally distributed remote offices and retail stores.
- Gateway and routing (IP forwarding) capability - intelligent multiple routing table algorithm for physical network or logical network fail over detection.
- DHCP server - provides extra IPs for your remote site on regular or emergency basis - or replaces your current router altogether.
- Firewall - built-in and turns on with a checkbox.
- Power control and monitoring - get alerts on suboptimal IT device health before POS malfunctions occur and repair faults automatically. Preventive medicine is the best kind.
- Security - built with selectable 1024-bit encrypted cryptographic protocols and selectable cypher suite levels. Support X.509 SSH certificates, Local, AD/LDAP, RADIUS, TACACS+, Kerberos authentication, system configuration checksum, system event syslog and more.
- Docker and scripting apps - bulk up your stores' customer services by deploying your own in-store DNS Server Docker app (customer-store interactive Wi-Fii), NFS Docker app for extra storage use (CCTV or product display playback), or any other new scripts/apps which increase in-store profitability, YOY
- Wi-Fi hostspot ready - start beaming your own Wi-Fi antenna into your NodeGrid unit. Perfect for the far corners of your data galaxy.
