Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise has announced significant updates to its VitalQIP IP Address Management (IPAM) solution. This ensures business continuity by allowing customers to “effortlessly automate the migration to the IPv6 internet address system”, says the company. VitalQIP 8.0 was developed with the assistance of Alcatel-Lucent’s existing customer base to provide an IPv6 solution which meets their management requirements.
The inevitable migration to the almost inexhaustible number of IPv6 addresses requires efficient management. Enterprises must recognise that a change in mindset is required from legacy IPv4 methodologies – it’s no longer about address conservation.
VitalQIP 8.0 allows enterprises to efficiently provision their IP addresses and provides an affordable and highly reliable carrier grade solution for improving network management efficiency by automating critical IP address services deployment and centralising address management.
VitalQIP enables customers to configure, automate and administer both IPv4 and IPv6 addressing schemes effortlessly. Alcatel-Lucent VitalQIP customers on average see an ROI of over 900% and a payback period of 106 days (IDC)
Some of the key features of VitalQIP 8.0 include:
– Supports hierarchical delegation of IPv6 address space in an automated or manual manner
– New management methodology employed, enabling VitalQIP to scale to vast IPv6 address numbers
– Enables smooth migration from IPv4 to IPv6 address management
– All new Alcatel-Lucent High Performance multi-threaded DHCPv6 server
– DNS64 translation supported
With VitalQIP, if a customer chooses, they only need to enter a single IPv6 address – all other IPv6 addresses can be provisioned by allocation algorithms and IPAM automation through VitalQIP 8.0.
Spokesperson Brian Shorland, EMEA product manager, Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise commented, “With IPv6 deployments now occurring in the enterprise space, customers need the tools to manage their vast IPv6 address allocations automatically. Doing so manually via spreadsheets – as was often the case with IPv4 address management – is simply not viable in an IPv6 addressing environment.
“IPv6 is not going away, and IT departments will be left behind if they don’t prepare for it. We’ve been in the IP address management space since 1993, with our first IPV6 management solution brought to market in 2005. VitalQIP 8.0 represents the next generation of IPv6 IPAM solutions. Enterprises need IPv6 migration strategies in place for their business to transition to IPv6 as IPv4 address exhaustion continues globally, and effective IP address management should be one of the first stages of any enterprise’s IPv6 migration strategy.”
