Cisco Cisco Prime IP Express 8.2 White Paper

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White Paper

Cisco Prime IP Express: DDI

Deploying a Scalable, Resilient, High-Performance DDI Solution

Overview

With the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend, enterprises are seeing an explosion of connected devices in the

workplace - smartphones, tablets, video cameras, card readers, and much more. And the Internet of Things (IoT),

a rising tide of billions of new connected devices that will come online over the next several years, is also bringing

an onslaught of wireless devices and services to enterprise networks.

At the same time, the growing trend toward virtualization exponentially increases the complexity of the network,

adding more network management points, more systems to be managed, and many more IP addresses consumed

per physical machine.

All of those physical and virtual devices need fast, reliable connectivity to the enterprise network. And all of them

depend on basic Domain Name System (DNS), Dynamic Host Control Protocol (DHCP), and IP address

management (IPAM) services to provide that connectivity. But is your current DNS, DHCP, and IPAM (DDI)

framework ready to deliver it? Ask yourself the following questions:

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Can you easily scale DDI services across all of your sites and manage them centrally and automatically? Or

are you relying on a patchwork of basic

“freeware” solutions and spreadsheets that have to be managed

manually at each site?

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Do you have a rock-solid, highly available framework for the core DDI services that are the bedrock of your

business connectivity? Or are you vulnerable to an outage or DNS attack in one segment of the network

cutting off hundreds or thousands of employees from critical business applications?

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Are your DDI platform and processes ready to transition to IPv6 when the coming wave of new IoT and

network connections makes it a basic business requirement? Or will you have to overhaul your systems?

Despite the reality that DDI is the foundation of your business’s Internet and network connectivity, many

enterprises still rely on aging, localized, and largely manual DDI tools. These systems are barely equipped to keep
pace with today’s higher network traffic volumes and the growing number of connected devices - much less meet
the connectivity needs of tomorrow. Fortunately, there’s a better solution: Cisco Prime

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IP Express.

Cisco Prime IP Express

Cisco Prime IP Express provides a highly reliable, scalable, and centrally managed DDI solution for enterprise

networks. Based on the same Cisco Prime Network Registrar DNS and DHCP technology used in many of the
world’s largest service provider networks, it brings industrial-strength performance and security, massive

scalability, and high availability to your enterprise DDI services.