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Making network access easier for your end-users

BT Diamond IP is the leading provider of flexible full lifecycle IPAM systems, available as both software and hardware deployments – or a mixture of the two – that can be fully integrated into your current network. 

Ensure sufficient IP address capacity

Through BT Diamond IP’s automated, centralised IP interface you can:

  • Track IP address utilisation across your network and free up reclaimable address space.
  • Define your IP network according to your own network topology, policies and procedures.
  • Plan your migration to IPv6 with integrated IPv4 and IPv6 support that protects your IP management investment.

Rationalise complex infrastructures

BT Diamond IP integrates seamlessly into multi-vendor infrastructures, enabling you to:

  • Centralise network management with support for native DNS and DHCP server products.
  • Create a stable and robust IP infrastructure through a uniform IP platform capable of supporting voice over IP (VoIP), wireless local area networks (WLAN) and video.
  • Manage the proliferation of IP-enabled devices accurately, enabling access for end-users from multiple devices.

Reduce network service outages

BT Diamond IP’s centralised IPAM system enables you to:

  • Eliminate manual DNS and DHCP configuration errors – the major cause of network downtime – and improve network availability by up to 15 per cent.
  • Receive alerts to pre-empt IP address depletion and network or server failures.
  • Provide an additional layer of network availability, in the event of server failure, via hardware redundancy.

Increase operational accountability, efficiency and productivity

By managing your IPAM system through a single interface, your IT personnel can:

  • Eliminate the need for manual IPAM systems, such as spreadsheets, that are time-consuming to update and monitor.
  • Assign multi-administrator controls and manage secure access levels.
  • Audit IP and MAC addresses using our reporting facility.
  • Automate operating system updates and patches.
  • Integrate and automate IPAM, DNS and DHCP processes to simplify network management, enabling greater IP stability.
  • Use an intuitive interface that enables configuration and management of IP space and DNS/DHCP servers by non-experts.

Achieve rapid return on investment

By automating and integrating your DHCP, DNS and IPAM processes you can:

  • Obtain a return on investment that may exceed 150 per cent within three years.

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