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Press Releases
Nominum Introduces DCS - Enterprise-class DHCP
Oct 7 2002
REDWOOD CITY, CA., October 7, 2002 - Nominum, a pioneer of Internet naming and
address management solutions, today announced Nominum Dynamic Configuration
Server (DCS), a next-generation Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
server designed to address the needs of today's network-dependent businesses.
DHCP is a network protocol that enables individual users to plug their
computers into the corporate network without IT assistance. As enterprise
networks have grown in size and complexity, the demands on DHCP servers have
increased dramatically. "Enterprises should view their DNS and DHCP
infrastructures as critical aspects of their overall infrastructure." said
Gartner Vice Presidents Mark Fabbi and John Enck, in a report titled "Sorting
Through the Enterprise DNS Confusion" dated March 2002.
"ETH needs a
DHCP solution that can be integrated into our existing database and management
systems, and can scale up as we roll DHCP service out over our entire campus.
After months of testing, we remain very impressed by the simple, yet flexible
and powerful design of Nominum DCS. We plan on full deployment during 2003,"
stated Karl Auer, a Networking Manager at the Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology, Zurich (Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule, Zurich).
Nominum DCS is the first DHCP solution specifically engineered for
large-scale mission-critical environments. DCS supports many-to-one failover for
assured DHCP availability, and is the first DHCP server to follow the emerging
IETF standards for failover compatibility. DCS starts up in a few seconds,
unlike other DHCP servers that can take up to an hour to re-start after a power
outage. With reconfiguration on the fly, DCS eliminates the need to stop a DHCP
server to change its configuration. DCS can scale to millions of concurrent
leases, and delivers industry-leading throughput performance.
"DCS was
designed and written from its inception to out-perform all other DHCP servers.
Performance in this case means speed, scalability, and availability," said David
Conrad, founder and CTO of Nominum. "All in all, DCS meets the needs of both our
enterprise customers and our service provider customers."
About
Nominum
Nominum is a pioneering provider of IP address infrastructure
software for enterprises that require reliable and secure DNS, DHCP and IP
address management for their mission critical networks. Nominum is driving the
future of IP addressing. For more information about Nominum, go to www.nominum.com.
Contacts:
Nominum, Inc.
Laura
Hendriksen
650-381-6018
laura.hendriksen@nominum.com
InterActive
Public Relations
Melissa Hourigan
415-975-3355
melissa@ipri.com
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