Nixu, Helsinki December 30 2009

AARNet Endorses Nixu NameSurfer: Success Story on Nixu IPAM

AARNet Pty Ltd of Australia provides high-capacity leading-edge Internet services for the tertiary education and research sector communities and their research partners. AARNet serves over one million end users who access the network through local area networks at member institutions. AARNet delivered in excess of 5000 terabytes of traffic in 2008.

David Jericho, Senior System Administrator at AARNet, describes the background of their IPAM project carried out during the second half of 2008, and the ensuing success:

"It was identified that our DNS management was becoming increasingly difficult and error prone, due to having not only many /19 net blocks but also the adoption of IPv6. Adapting existing systems to accommodate dynamic updates, utilisation of our zones as source data for IP address management, and technologies such as ENUM were highlighting problems with a system that had served AARNet since the late 90s.

Since deploying Nixu, we have found both common changes and more complicated configurations far easier. The number of errors or duplicate data entry has greatly dropped, and the network engineers have taken to it like a duck to water. The Operations Team have been able to do tasks very minimal instruction. Nixu was integrated easily with our existing infrastructure.

I have no hesitation in recommending Nixu NameSurfer as a competent and capable solution for DNS and IP management."

About Nixu NameSurfer Suite

Nixu NameSurfer Suite simplifies and speeds up the administrative processes associated with adding new hosts to network, whether dynamic or static. Thanks to its real-time synchronization with DNS and DHCP services, the IPAM module can be used to manage the distribution and allocation of name and address space, and as a centralized repository for equipment and usage related data. Nixu NameSurfer Suite also comes with graphic real-time display of subnet usage and advanced user management functionalities.

Nixu NameSurfer Suite is the only enterprise-grade IPAM solution backed up by Citrix Verified and VMware Ready certifications. To run Nixu Products in virtual machine environment, simply download an ISO installation media from our website and boot up a new virtual machine. The installation media auto-installs the entire hardened server stack in just minutes.

About Nixu Software

Nixu Software is a privately held affiliate of Nixu Group headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, with regional contact points in Americas, Central Europe and Asia Pacific. Its mission is to offer the best value in industry by creating virtualization-ready DNS, DHCP and IP addressing software appliances that set the benchmark for combined security, ease of use and low cost of ownership. Nixu Products' installed-base consists of more than 3.000 server deployments worldwide.

For more information, please visit www.nixusoftware.com.