BT Diamond IP IPAM Innovations

While other vendors talk about market leadership, BT Diamond IP has quietly demonstrated its leadership with product innovations that continue to expand the breadth and depth of IPAM capabilities available to our customers. These innovations allow our customers to do more with less: more IPAM functionality for less cost.

One way lower cost is realized is through the use of one integrated web user interface enabling simplified management of complex IP address, DHCP and DNS configurations. While other vendors require multiple user interfaces, this increases purchase costs, training costs and troubleshooting costs, recovering from error-prone “cut and paste” among multiple interfaces. Our innovations also enable customers to expand the breadth of their IPAM system, providing more functionality from their IPAM investment.

Here is a sampling of some of the innovations brought to market by BT Diamond IP:

• 2003: Fully functional web user interface
• 2003: Patented container topology feature (patent awarded 2009)
• 2003: First integrated IPv4/IPv6 address management system
• 2003: Router subnet discovery
• 2004: Innovative user defined fields with drop-downs, URLs, radio buttons and more
• 2004: Callout Manager Service enables flow-through workflow for downstream events
• 2005: First all-appliance solution with IPAM appliances with DHCP/DNS appliances
• 2005: First full BIND DNS configuration support with options, views, logging, controls and more
• 2006: Integrated IP discovery and reconciliation
• 2006: First appliance with RAID-5 and lights-out management with IPMI
• 2007: Subnet reclaim in addition to IP address reclaim
• 2007: Flexible IPv6 block allocation for manual, best-fit, sparse and random allocation
• 2008: Switch port mapping
• 2008: Router ARP discovery
• 2009: First centralized managed IPAM services offering
• 2009: US Patent for IPv4/IPv6 management

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