We've recently deployed our first Opengear ACM5004-G http://opengear.com/product-acm5000-g.html and its working great. It has cellular (3G), ethernet, USB and four serial interfaces; you could easily daisy chain a serial interface to a terminal server if you need more OOB serial ports. The setup was very easy; our Verizon rep just required the ESN off the bottom of the unit since Opengear's already gone through Verizon's certification process so their devices' ESN's are known to Verizon as valid for their network. He asked what plan we wanted, I told him I wanted a static public IP, two days later we were up and running. Since this is considered a M2M (machine to machine) device, similar to alarm systems and other low bandwidth devices, you can get monthly plans down to $7 for a few megabytes and up to normal consumer-level 5 gigs for $50/month type plans. The static IP didn't add any cost. The device has a cool unique feature where you can set it to keep the cellular interface 'down' for data as its normal state so no one outside is trying to break into it or wasting your bandwidth. Then you send a text message to the phone number assigned to it and it will bring up the data interface so you can SSH in. You can configure firewall rules on it, use key-based auth, change the ssh port number, etc. David
-----Original Message----- From: Christopher J. Pilkington [mailto:cjp@0x1.net] Sent: Friday, May 04, 2012 10:53 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Verizon 1xRTT/EVDO for OOB
Is anyone using Verizon 1xRTT/EVDO ("3G") for OOB work? I'm trying to sort out how exactly to order a compatible service from them. Unfortunately I don't manage our Verizon Wireless relationship, so I need to be specific.
Is there a service code or name they refer to this service as? Looking for low bandwidth, static IP.
-cjp