Kelly Communications and Cyclades IT Infastructure Management

KCS and Cyclades
Kelly Communications Systems is a full-service Cyclades Certified Partner. We have maintained an established relationship with Cyclades for several years. We also staff an in-house trained engineer available for prompt service and installations of Cyclades equipment. Priority service programs including on-site support packages for the New Jersey and New York City areas are available through us as well. Please inquire about our pre-sale technical support on all Cyclades solutions.

About Cyclades
'Established in 1991, Cyclades Corporation has been a leader in providing innovative and effective connectivity and administrative products that address the evolving IT infrastructure management needs of our customers. Today Cyclades offers a comprehensive range of products including the AlterPath™ System of Out-of-Band Infrastructure (OOBI — pronounced oo' bee) management products. These include console servers, KVM and KVM over IP, power control, IPMI Management, and a manager to control the entire out-of-band infrastructure. The AlterPath™ System provides secure, alternate paths into the production IT infrastructure, enabling administrators to remotely access, diagnose and restore disconnected assets to normal operation. Designed to seamlessly integrate and deploy into the enterprise, Cyclades AlterPath solutions offer a cost-effective and time-saving alternative to local administration, improving overall availability, service levels and staff productivity.'

Cyclades history with Linux
'In 1993 Cyclades was the first hardware company in the world to develop communication boards for Linux. At that time, the Internet was booming and the combination of open architecture hardware (Intel Pentium I machines) and Open Source (Linux) enabled ISPs to build very powerful and cost-effective Internet servers. Multiport serial cards were the core of the solution for a dial-up Internet server. The Cyclades Cyclom-Y cards became the reference serial card for Linux. It took more than a year for the second vendor to show a similar solution.

In 2000, Cyclades pioneered server and network management by being the first company in the world to launch a Linux-based Console Server and to offer a development kit for products with complete software source code, enabling customers to adapt the product to their specific needs. Again, the Cyclades Console Server became the market reference, being adopted by the largest Internet and banking firms worldwide to manage their entire network independent of an operating system. That prompted competitors to model their new developments after Cyclades products.

As of 2005, it is easy to see the shift in the Console Server market towards the adoption of open architectures, as a result of Cyclades initiatives in 2000.'