Telenor Cinclus Deploys Infoblox Appliances for European Meter Readers

Infoblox Inc. reportedly has announced that Norway-based Telenor (News - Alert) Cinclus AS, a supplier of automatic meter readers throughout Europe, has deployed Infoblox appliances.

 

The deployment is designed to support the delivery of core network services, Infoblox (News - Alert) officials say, including external and internal domain name resolution, IP address assignment and management and remote access dial-in user services.

 

According to Roar Sollie, a senior systems engineer at Telenor Cinclus, the company required a scalable solution that could handle a large and diverse customer base.

 

“Infoblox provided a redundant solution for all of our core network solutions, including RADIUS, DHCP, DNS and IPAM,” Sollie said. “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.”

 

Telenor Cinclus AS is a partly owned subsidiary of Telenor – the Nordic region’s largest telecommunications company, Infoblox officials say. Telenor Cinclus provides complete product solutions, in areas range across physical meter reading, communication equipment for households and backend operating systems.

 

Before using Infoblox, the company relied on an outsourced solution, making it difficult to manage and scale. That left Telenor Cinclus with little control over the IP address space. As a result, the company required a more dynamic, manageable and purpose-built solution to provide IP addresses to its terminals. Infoblox, with its integrated DNS and DHCP systems, which include built-in high availability and IP address management features, proved to be right solution Telenor Cinclus.

 

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.