VERTIV AVOCENT ACS
Advanced Console Server

Overview

Ongoing market disruption has challenged IT teams at hyperscale, colocation, enterprise and edge sites. IT and network managers, and their staff need secure, authorized and remote access to IT infrastructures to perform their jobs, monitor system health, and address issues and alerts before they become problematic. 

That mission has become increasingly important as organizations adopt digital-first business models, implementing hybrid cloud infrastructures and moving workloads closer to customer and user demand. Downtime not only negatively impacts your workforce’s productivity, but can also bring operations to a standstill, resulting in customer and revenue loss. 

Whether they’re working from home or on-site, your data centre and network teams need to access serial-based devices in the same building; at large sites on the other side of the world; or across edge sites. You need to scale time and talent to manage all of these devices, without adding extra staff or compromising employee safety. You also need to increase responsiveness, from automatically deploying and configuring devices to providing proactive management, troubleshooting and issue resolution. By so doing, you can support growing data centre and edge site demand, while ensuring continuity of vital services. 

Security is also a significant concern. Cyberattacks are growing, putting pressure on your IT teams to maintain systems effectively, identify and address security gaps, and respond to incidents proactively. You want to strengthen security by providing access-based controls that limit responsibilities to job functions and protecting devices from unauthorized access 

Manage Your Growing IT Infrastructure with Growing Precision and Ease 

Ongoing market disruption has accelerated organization’s digital transformation efforts. In addition, the drive to remote work will continue to increase pressure on IT infrastructure. As a data centre or network manager, they will play an invaluable role in enabling organizations’ ongoing growth and in ensuring the business continuity of digital operations. To scale critical processes, IT teams need centralized IT management capabilities, better visibility and processes that offer redundant or alternative access to vital infrastructures. The Avocent ACS 8000 Serial Console Server meets these needs by providing inbound and out-of-band (OOB) management capabilities; Ethernet, cellular and analog failover capabilities; automated processes; and security. The Avocent ACS 8000 Seral Console Server empowers IT teams and supports organisations with fast, flexible processes that can be easily adapted and scaled to meet the latest business and technology requirements. 

Here’s how the Avocent® ACS 8000 Serial Console Server enhances your IT management capabilities.

• Increase efficiency: Gain a single point of authentication and remote accessibility to efficiently manage your network. Empower your IT team with a single tool for both inbound and OOB management. 

• Gain management capabilities: Integrate with sensors and IoT applications and monitor environmental conditions remotely, ensuring that power and cooling are at optimal levels. Speed issue detection and resolution without needing to deploy staff to offsite locations. 

• Streamline IT processes: Access, monitor and troubleshoot remote locations, with or without wired network access. Improve your troubleshooting capabilities and speeds, bringing devices and sites back online faster. 

• Manage all your devices: Manage, monitor and troubleshoot servers, routers, network switches, firewalls, rack power distribution units (PDUs), uninterruptible power supplies (UPSs) and more. 

• Improve connectivity: Exploit 4G LTE cellular, gigabit fiber, USB and sensor connectivity to streamline management tasks. Tap cellular access both as a primary WAN interface and for secondary failover and failback capabilities at sites that lack Ethernet infrastructure or secondary Ethernet networks. 

• Accelerate response: Reduce the amount of time it takes to perform routine tasks or resolve incidents, improving uptime of mission-critical infrastructures. Avoid unnecessary trips to edge sites, increasing IT team throughput and effectiveness. 

• Automate processes: Use zero-touch provisioning to configure new devices rapidly and automatically. Reduce manual processes and errors while responding swiftly to emerging business needs. Redeploy staff on higher-value tasks, enabling your existing team to do more.

• Improve security: Tightly control access to devices and locations. Only allow authorized staff to perform the jobs they have been approved to execute. 

• Integrate with other devices: Bundle the Avocent ACS 8000 Serial Console Server with other Vertiv™ solutions such as the Avocent® DSView™ centralized management tool; Vertiv racks and cabinets; Avocent keyboard, video and mouse (KVM)-over-IP switches; Liebert and Geist™ PDUs, Geist™ UPSs; and more. Also integrate third-party devices to streamline management processes. 

Zero Touch Provisioning

The zero touch provisioning feature is an extension of the console server's BootP configuration retrieval and is a method for deploying many console servers into an environment. All that is required is a valid DHCP server and TFTP server to use zero-touch provisioning. Configure the DHCP servers to instruct newly introduced console servers to download a template configuration and upgrade/downgrade firmware. Setting up the DHCP/TFTP/configuration files only take a few minutes and will potentially save hours of configuration time for console servers subsequently added to your network. 

Avocent ACS8000 Serial Console Server Features

The Avocent ACS8000 serial console server provides powerful IT management capabilities. They include:

• NEW! 4G LTE cellular connectivity provides both primary WAN interface and secondary failover support

• NEW! - Environmental sensor port gives visibility into onsite conditions

• Secure in-band and out-of-band (OOB) access to remotely manage and troubleshoot IT devices anywhere in the world

• Fast, automated configuration with Zero Touch Provisioning

• Access and troubleshoot remote locations using automatic network failover to cellular, Ethernet or analog modem

• No need for adaptors with automatic Cyclades™ and Cisco pin-out conversions

• Compliance with data centre access and security policies customizable, multiple access levels

• Expanded support for Rack PDUs from Vertiv™ Geist™, ServerTech, APC, Raritan and Eaton

• Support for Vertiv™ GXT4 and Vertiv™ GXT5 UPS systems

• IPv6 and IPv4 support for new network deployments

• Integration with Avocent® DSView™ software for centralized management

• Strong dial-up and secure dial-back using optional built-in modem

• Console event logging and notification, including “last gasp” capture

• Regulatory compliance and easy troubleshooting with online and off-line data logging with time stamps

• Integrated support for 1Gb SFP fiber modules

• 8 USB ports to support new IT equipment with USB console ports as well as external peripherals

• Employs FIPS 140-2 cryptographic module for enhanced security 

Serial Console Ordering Details 

ACS8000 Serial Console Server

• V-ACS8008SAC-400 ACS8000 8-port Serial Console with dual 1GB LAN, single AC power supply 

• V-ACS8016SAC-400 ACS8000 16-port Serial Console with dual 1GB LAN,  single AC power supply 

• V-ACS8016DAC-400 ACS8000 16-port Serial Console with dual 1GB LAN,  dual AC power supply 

• V-ACS8032SAC-400 ACS8000 32-port Serial Console with dual 1GB LAN,  single AC power supply

• V-ACS8048SAC-400 ACS8000 48-port Serial Console with dual 1GB LAN,  single AC power supply 

• V-ACS8048DAC-400 ACS8000 48-port Serial Console with dual 1GB LAN,  dual AC power supply 

ACS8000 Serial Console Server with Built-In Modem

• V-ACS804MEAC-404 ACS800 4-port Serial Console with dual 1GB LAN,  external AC/DC, and built-in modem

• V-ACS8008MDAC-400 ACS8000 8-port Serial Console with dual 1GB LAN,  dual AC power supply and built-in modem 

• V-ACS8016MDAC-400 ACS8000 16-port Serial Console with dual 1GB LAN,  dual AC power supply and built-in modem

• V-ACS8032MDAC-400 ACS8000 32-port Serial Console with dual 1GB LAN,  dual AC power supply and built-in modem 

• V-ACS8048MDAC-400 ACS8000 48-port Serial Console with dual 1GB LAN,  dual AC power supply and built-in modem 

ACS8000 Serial Console Server with LTE

• V-ACS8008-EU-DAC-400 ACS8000 8-port Serial Console with dual 1GB LAN, dual AC power supply and cellular 4G/LTE

• V-ACS8016-EU-DAC-400 ACS8000 16-port Serial Console with dual 1GB LAN, dual AC power supply and cellular 4G/LTE

• V-ACS8032-EU-DAC-400 ACS8000 32-port Serial Console with dual 1GB LAN, dual AC power supply and cellular 4G/LTE 

• V-ACS8048-EU-DAC-400 ACS8000 48-port Serial Console with dual 1GB LAN, dual AC power supply and cellular 4G/LTE

Serial Adapters 

• V-ADB0017 RJ45 to DB25 Female cross converter serial adapter 

• V-ADB0025 RJ45 to DB25 Male cross converter serial adapter 

• V-ADB0036 RJ45 to DB9 Female cross converter serial adapter 

• V-ADB0037 RJ45 to DB9 Male cross converter serial adapter 

• V-ADB0039 RJ45 to RJ45 Male Sun/Cisco cross converter serial adapter 

Hardware Specifications

CPU: Dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore with CoreSight 

Memory: 1GB DDR3L RAM
16GB eMMC Flash 

Interfaces: 2 Gigabit Fiber SFP ports
2 Gigabit (10/100/1000BT) Ethernet interfaces on RJ45
1 RS-232 serial console port on RJ45
Up to 48 RS-232 serial ports on RJ45
First 2 ports selectable between RS-232/RS-422/RS-485
8 USB 2.0 Ports on Type A connector
1 full size SD Card slot
Environmental sensor port on RJ45 (1-wire)
4 digital-in ports (smoke, leak, pressure and dry contact sensors) 

Power: Internal 100–240 VAC, 50/60 Hz Optional –48 VDC power supply
Optional dual entry, redundant AC and DC power supplies 

Power Usage: Nominal voltage 120VAC: Maximum 0.29A, 28W
Typical 0.13A, 6.2W Nominal voltage 48VDC (±20%)  
Maximum 0.47A, 28W Typical 0.22A, 11W  
Nominal voltage 240VAC: Maximum 0.67A, 33W  
Typical 0.10A, 7W 

Operating Temp: 14°F to 140°F (-10°C to 60°C) 

Storage Temp: -4° to 158°F (-20° to 70°C) 

Operating Humidity: 20% to 80% Non-condensing RH 

Storage Humidity: 5% to 95% Non-condensing RH 

Dimensions (W x D x H): 17.25W x 9.5D X 1.75H in (43.82 x 24.13 x 4.45 cm) 

Weight: 6.4 - 7.2 lbs 

Certifications: Emissions and Immunity

• FCC Class A

• CE Class (EU) 

• ICES-003 (Canada) 

• VCCI (Japan) 

• RCM (Australia) 

•Customs Union (CU) 

• KCC (Korea)

Safety

• UL (USA) 

• cUL (Canada) 

• EN-60950 (EU) 

• CB • Customs Union (CU) 

• UL 60950-1 2nd ED (Cellular related) 

• cUL 60950-1 2nd ED 

• IEC 60950-1 2nd ED (Cellular Related) 

EMC/Radio Compliance (Cellular Related)

• FCC Part 15 Class B 

• FCC Part 22, 24, 27 

Network (Cellular Related)

• PTCRB  

Cellular Type: 4G/LTE Cat.4 with 3G fallback – AT&T, Verizon - (2FF/mini SIM card slot)

Cellular Frequency Bands (MHz): 

4G Bands (MHz): B2(1900), B4(AWS1700), B5(850), B12(700a), B13(700c), B14(700 FirstNet), B66(AWS-31700), B71(600)

3G Bands (MHz): B2(1900), B4(AWS1700), B5(850) 

AT&T – Utilizes B2, B4, B5, B12, B14

Verizon – Utilizes B4, B13 

*ACS80xx-LN Models supports B2, B4, B5, B12, B13 bandz