Description

Infoblox network identity appliances provide the essential foundation for identity-driven networks (IDNs), delivering reliable, scalable, and secure network identity services including DNS, DHCP, RADIUS, and IPAM. The integrated Infoblox approach combines the simplicity of appliances with the power of advanced distributed database technology to effectively achieve availability, manageability, visibility, and control unparalleled by conventional solutions based on legacy technologies.

Infoblox appliances deliver key solutions for building IDNs:

IP addresses are one of the most critical resources that need to be managed in any network. Having immediate access to information such as which IP addresses are in use, when they were allocated, which devices they were assigned to, and who is using them is critical to eliminating conflicts and network outages, tracking critical assets, ensuring network security, troubleshooting network problems and enabling regulatory compliance.

IP Address Management (IPAM)

IP address management lets customers manage DNS and IP address data at company-wide level, delivering unified management, monitoring, and administration, and providing for appropriate levels of centralized auditing and reporting. Infoblox provides the world's first and only appliance solution that integrates DNS and DHCP with built-in IPAM and offers the following capabilities:

• Integrated IP management console
• Address history tracking
• Dynamic address control
• Device classification
• IP address status viewer and threshold alerting

For the small-medium business, IPAM is provided with the IDeal IP™ module; an integrated DNS, DHCP, and IP address management solution. For the medium to large enterprises, the DNSone® and Keystone™ modules provide integrated, appliance-based IPAM unified across a collection of distributed appliances.

Network Admission Control

As organizations look to protect their networks from external and internal attacks from viruses, worms, and other threats, they are looking for easy-to-implement methods to ensure only authorized users are able to access network resources. This is especially critical in environments where the user population is constantly changing and mobile.

The Infoblox Authenticated DHCP solution provides network administrators with a simple but powerful tool to assist in the registration and authentication of users in a networked environment. The solution uses a customizable Web-based portal to require user authentication before a DHCP license is granted, with the nonstop DNS/DHCP services delivered via Infoblox’s revolutionary network identity appliances.

Active Directory

Many user organizations have found that MS Active Directory’s basic services lack the scalability, resiliency, security, and automated resource management required for mission-critical environments.

There is also a significant time lag between when each of many distributed Microsoft domain controllers receives updates of directory information. This has become an issue now that user mobility among domains has become a common occurrence in everyday business life.

Infoblox DNSone easily integrates into Microsoft AD to enable enterprises to extend their server-based installations into scalable, nonstop network-centric deployments. Using the power of Infoblox’s new Keystone DVS and Infoblox NIOS Version 3 software, updates can now take place synchronously across all appliances in real time.

High-Availability DHCP for Voice over IP

Users demand dial-tone reliability for voice communications. To deliver this level of reliability in an IP environment requires a nonstop DHCP service for assigning IP addresses to voice-over-IP handsets and IP soft phones.
The Infoblox DNSone Version 3 module and network identity appliance deliver the only truly high-availability voice solution on the market today. Infoblox appliances support automatic failover between two units in HA mode and real-time data updates across distributed appliances to meet the nonstop demands of voice communication

Wireless LAN Authentication:

Wireless LAN (“Wi-Fi”) security standards require the use of an authentication server based on the RADIUS AAA protocol. Using an Infoblox RADIUSone appliance for the job ensures that the vendor-specific and industry-standard Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) algorithms of your choice (such as EAP-TLS, EAP-TTLS, PEAP, Cisco LEAP, and others) will automatically be supported, because Infoblox RADIUSone supports all EAP types.