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As organizations replace traditional telephony architectures with IP networks, they face new challenges to meet or exceed traditional telephony service levels while realizing cost savings from consolidating their voice and data networks. Network infrastructures are often upgraded with the latest technologies for quality of service (QoS), fault tolerance, and management as part of a VoIP deployment. However, several other considerations are often overlooked, such as ensuring the availability of IP addresses and managing the distribution of IP phone firmware and configuration files. The systems that deliver these critical services are often the responsibility of the end user, and deficiencies can cause significant deployment delays and increased
operational overhead.
Critical Services For VoIP
The Infoblox Network Services for VoIP package, deployed on Infoblox
appliances, provides a simple, manageable, and highly available
solution that can help network and telephony administrators
achieve the reliability and service levels experienced with
legacy telephony environments—with dramatically less
effort. Delivering critical IP telephony services such as DHCP,
TFTP/FTP/HTTP, NTP, IP address management and troubleshooting tools
on purpose-built network appliances linked into a unified Infoblox
grid, the Infoblox solution increases the overall reliability
and manageability of any
VoIP implementation.
Infoblox Grid Technology Reduces Management Overhead
Infoblox’s grid technology creates a centrally managed and highly
available environment that reduces the total cost of ownership
of any VoIP rollout. Infoblox grid technology links appliances at central
and remote offices into a unified, distributed system that is resilient
to network and equipment failures and assures continuous uptime.
This provides a way to manage IP addresses and to distribute IP phone
firmware and configuration files across distributed VoIP environments.
The grid also provides a single integration point for linking to authentication
stores in Active Directory or other LDAP user and
policy stores.
Efficient Configuration File Management
Managing VoIP phone firmware and configuration files can be a challenge in large-scale distributed environments, especially across WAN links. Infoblox solves this problem by distributing VoIP IP phone files across the grid. IP phone software updates and configurations are automatically distributed among the grid member appliances for download to local phones via the local LAN, saving expensive WAN bandwidth. Each grid member supports TFTP, FTP and HTTP file download to support virtually all IP phones from all manufacturers. Regardless of your choice of IP telephony vendor, Infoblox provides a comprehensive and
cost-saving solution.
High-availability Services and Local Survivability
The Network Services for VoIP package runs on the purpose-built
Infoblox appliance platforms, which are designed for nonstop operation
in high-performance networks, using industry-standard Virtual Router
Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) for sub 5-second network failover. Further,
Infoblox grid technology ensures uptime at remote offices, even when
WAN connection is lost or central office networking devices are down
for maintenance.
Easy-to-use GUI
Infoblox’s GUI, the Infoblox Grid Manager, can be run from a PC
running Windows XP or Linux OSes. The abstracted, data-centric
interface streamlines complex and repetitive management operations and
enables administrators to focus on data and services rather than boxes
and protocols. This reduces management time and eliminates many
common data entry errors.
Certified for Cisco And Avaya VoIP Systems
Infoblox Network Services for VoIP has been tested and independently
certified compatible with IP phone systems from Cisco Systems,
Avaya, and Siemens. Infoblox is a Cisco Technology Development
Partner.
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