“After migrating our DHCP infrastructure to Nominum DCS we have seen a significant improvement in our network.  The new management capabilities greatly simplify our operations and allow us to manage our addresses more effectively.  Customer satisfaction is also higher because DHCP is literally always available, which is critical for an Internet Service Provider that offers broadband Internet, telephony, and video on-demand services.”

Xavier Darche, director of platform operations at Numericable.  

Demand for addressing services is increasing as more devices such as smartphones and netbooks connect to the Internet and ISPs extend their networks with wireless access alternatives such as Wi-Fi where sporadic short duration connectivity is required.  As IPv6 gains traction hundreds of millions, and eventually billions of additional devices will need connectivity and configuration parameters using DHCPv6. 

Nominum's Dynamic Configuration Server (DCS) is a commercial-grade DHCP server that offers flexible, scalable and highly available DHCP services. DCS augments basic DHCP operations with a high-performance architecture, open interfaces for integration with other systems, and failover capabilities for optimal service levels.  

DCS Benefits Include:

• DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 support in a single server
• Configurable lease assignment rules
• Open interfaces for integration with other systems
• High throughput under load
• Advanced SNMP management capabilities send alerts for critical notification of events such as low available address or high abandoned address thresholds
• Flexible failover based on IETF standard

The flexible, scalable and reliable DHCP services provided by DCS are essential to today’s increasingly critical and complex network services:

Always-on: DCS offers high throughput, even under heavy loads. You can reconfigure DCS on-the-fly, without interrupting services. And failover protects DHCP services from server or component failures.

Differentiated services: DCS supports differentiated services or complex network environments with flexible lease assignments. Assignments can be based on user-defined attributes, vendor-specific attributes, or other real-time information from external systems.

Reliable VoIP: Ensure that VoIP phones can always get dial-tone by implementing failover between DCS servers.

IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS): Carriers and service providers implementing the IMS framework need a DHCP solution that integrates easily with the IMS framework and adapts to changing requirements. DCS has the scalability and flexibility to be an integral part of an IMS implementation.