Infoblox (News - Alert) Inc. today announced that Norwegian-based Telenor Cinclus, one of Europe's largest suppliers of automatic meter readers, has deployed Infoblox appliances.

 

The deployment of Infoblox appliances is meant for the delivery of core network services, including external and internal domain name resolution (DNS), IP address assignment and management (DHCP/IPAM) and Remote Access Dial-in User Services (RADIUS).

 

Telenor (News - Alert) Cinclus AS which is a partly owned subsidiary of Telenor is the largest telecommunications company in the Nordic region. With clients throughout Europe, Telenor Cinclus provides a complete product solution from physical meter reading and communication equipment for households to the backend operating systems.

 

Before using Infoblox, Telenor Cinclus used an outsourced solution to deliver key core network services. This makes it difficult to manage and scale and left Telenor Cinclus little control over the IP address space. As a result, Telenor Cinclus required a more dynamic, manageable and purpose-built solution to provide IP addresses to its terminals. Infoblox with its integrated DNS and DHCP systems that have built in high availability and IP address management features proved to be right solution Telenor Cinclus.

 

"With customers throughout Norway and EMEA, we needed a scalable solution that could handle our large and diverse customer base. Infoblox provided a redundant solution for all of our core network solutions, including RADIUS, DHCP, DNS and IPAM," said Roar Sollie, Senior Systems Engineer of Telenor Cinclus. "The replacement of our previous system by the Infoblox appliances proved to be both smart and cost efficient. We estimate our return on investment using Infoblox will be less than 18 months."

 

Infoblox-2000 hardware platform--designed for deployment in data centers, large enterprises and service provider environments-- serves more than 75,000 DNS requests per second and 750 DHCP leases per second, providing the capacity and performance required for the most demanding applications.