December 31, 2006
Good enough is no longer good enough
So you've upgraded your bandwidth. You've put in new routers, new switches, new almost everything. It's a fast network. Except, maybe your customers still complaining that sometimes the web is slow.
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December 13, 2006
Nominum sees uptick in the number of wireless carriers supporting wireless data apps
Nominum is seeing a rise in the need for high-end naming and addressing services as wireless carriers expand their mobile messaging and multimedia services.
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October 31, 2006
The Power Behind the Internet
The increasing use of VoIP and IPTV, and the requirement by telcos to make them carrier-grade quality, is placing a strain on the management of the Internet.
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September 15, 2006
Mockapetris on the Domain Name System
Paul Mockapetris is the computer scientist who invented the Domain Name System and is one of the founding fathers of the Internet. Bernier, Editor in Chief of xchange, recently spoke with Mockapetris about DNS.
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September 1, 2006
What's in a (domain) name?
The Domain Name Server (DNS) is at the heart of the sea change happening in communications, as multiple services converge on IP-based service platforms.
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July 26, 2006
Forrester: ENUM essential to more CTOs
Forrester Consulting has concluded after surveying high-level telecom network strategists at 11 large mostly incumbent telecom providers that ENUM, a long-emerging standard that facilitates voice-call routing across IP networks, is increasingly being seen as an essential routing function in the network.
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July 10, 2006
8 Myths about ENUM
Unfortunately, there's a good deal of hype and confusion around ENUM, which might lead carriers to delay ENUM implementations. That delay would be a mistake -- ENUM has real value to offer today in VoIP and other environments.
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July 6, 2006
Connecting the Islands: VoIP Peering Solution from Nomimum, Acme Packet, and Siemens
Now, though, systems capable of delivering direct IP-to-IP connections are being developed. One such system—referred to broadly as a VoIP peering solution—is a joint effort between network naming and addressing solutions provider Nominum, IP communications solutions provider Acme Packet, and electronics company Siemens.
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July 3, 2006
Siemens joins Acme and Nominum to promote VoIP peering
Siemens joins Acme and Nominum to promote VoIP peering
Siemens AG has joined the partnership already existing between Nominum and Acme Packet to promote VoIP Peering, a technology that joins up individual islands of VoIP telephony to bypass traditional circuit-switched networks.
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June 19, 2006
Interview: Why DNS defences need bolstering
Nominum’s Albert Gouyet explains how enterprises can protect their DNS servers.
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June 14, 2006
Rewriting the net address books
If ever your computer needs help finding out where a. com, .uk or any other website is on the net, the DNS is the system it consults for that address.
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May 24, 2006
Sun and Nominum upgrading DNS at Bell Canada
Two months after signing a partnership agreement to deliver carrier-grade domain name system solutions to carriers, Sun Microsystems and Nominum announced today that Bell Canada will use their joint solutions to upgrade its DNS infrastructure.
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May 24, 2006
Application-level Network Interoperability and the Evolution of IMS
As a standard blueprint for next-generation networks, the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) promises to help us handle the converging communications world efficiently by providing a common network infrastructure for fixed mobile convergence, VoIP peering, and potentially hundreds of applications.
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May 18, 2006
One Point of Call
According to Chris Risley, chief executive of Nominum, a company hoping to sell the machines that will do most of the work, Enum provides "a good anchor and a good route". It also, he says, comes with a range of advantages: "First, we will get digital-quality sound and then lots of other applications: movies, instant messaging, video conferencing ..."
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April 11, 2006
Nominum, Acme Packet Team for VoIP Peering Solution
The session border controllers can take advantage of new functionality added to Nominum Navitas products. The Nominum products manage large databases of DNS information to links a phone number to a location on the Internet, namely an IP address. Besides the ability to manage ENUM databases, the Navitas directories also include links to third-party service bureaus in order to access information, such as local-number porting, which also can be used to route calls.
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April 11, 2006
Acme Packet Intros Features, Announces Partnership
"Acme Packet and Nominum together enable secure, resilient and scalable ENUM directory services for cable operators and other service providers," said Tom Tovar, VP of Worldwide Sales and Business Development, Nominum. "Our proven interoperability and joint solution work is designed to speed the time to market for ENUM deployments and deliver what MSOs are demanding today."
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April 10, 2006
Nominum Teams with Acme Packet for VoIP Peering
The thrust of the deal between Redwood City, California-based Nominum and Acme Packet, which hails from Burlington, Massachusetts, is the combination of the former’s Navitas server for ENUM-based routing with the latter’s Net-Net SBC family for a joint VoIP peering offering.
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April 3, 2006
Verio Adds Nominum Name Server
The upgrade of Verio's existing authoritative DNS servers with Nominum's commercial grade ANS servers has increased capacity threefold and reduced downtime significantly, and it enables Verio to better meet service levels agreements to its growing subscriber base.
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April 1, 2006
Telephony's Next Act
"The very flexibility of the ENUM record makes it a tempting target for abuse, such as voice-over-IP spam," said Paul Mockapetris, DNS Inventor and Chairman of Nominum.
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March 29, 2006
Is industry standard BIND DNS good enough for the biggest deployments?
Sun Microsystems is teaming up with Nominum to offer an integrated carrier grade DNS and DHCP solution. The partners claim their offering bests that of the industry standard open source BIND solution for DNS.
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March 24, 2006
DNS servers do hackers' dirty work
Increasingly, DNS is going to be used in attacks, experts said, and their administrators can no longer afford to be lazy.
"There are multiple of these kinds of storms that are rising, and service providers and enterprises need to figure out how to make sure that their sea walls, dams and dikes and levees are high enough to withstand them," Mockapetris said.
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March 23, 2006
Nominum Helps Sun Out of a DNS BIND
Sun Microsystems is teaming up with Nominum to offer an integrated carrier grade DNS and DHCP solution. The partners claim their offering bests that of the industry standard open source BIND solution for DNS.
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February 14, 2006
Telmex Picks Nominum
Telmex, the leader in telecommunications and the major DSL service provider in Mexico with approximately 2 million subscribers, is using Nominum's Foundation Caching Name Server (CNS).
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February 1, 2006
BT Addresses Rapid DNS Growth
After exploring the alternatives, BT turned to Nominum’s Foundation Caching Name Server (CNS) to create a highly scalable DNS infrastructure that could handle dramatic increases in queries caused by both legitimate query growth and the effects of worms and viruses.
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January 23, 2006
Nominum Emphasizes ENUM
“It’s more complex than standard DNS [serving],” Gouyet began. “Where DNS is like looking in Yellow Pages for a type of company, ENUM is about finding individual people, and our core engines can enable that in a low-latency way, integrated into a carrier or enterprise’s network infrastructure.”
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January 13, 2006
IP Telephony Is On the Line -- Can the Telephone Directory join the Internet Age?
No one questions the inevitability of the convergence of voice, data and multimedia on IP networks worldwide. We probably can’t even foresee all the ways that this convergence will affect our daily lives. What we can and should question is exactly how we are getting there. Are today’s IP networks really ready for dial-tone?
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