Adonis™ 1750R and 1750RH Carrier Class DNS/DHCP Appliance for the Enterprise

Adonis™ 1750R and 1750RH DNS and DHCP appliance from BlueCat Networks offers the same award-winning capabilities of the Adonis™ 1000 appliance — now in a carrier-grade network appliance. Designed to meet the needs of the most demanding networks, the Adonis™ 1750R and 1750RH is a 1U rack-mountable appliance delivering industry leading performance with built-in hot-swappable power supplies and hot-swappable secured RAID hard-drives. The Adonis™ 1750R and 1750RH provides advanced levels of service availability for DNS and DHCP whether deployed in high availability or as a standalone server. Like all BlueCat’s Adonis™ appliances, the Adonis™ 1750R and 1750RH is designed to easily integrate with the industry-leading Proteus IPAM solution.

Experienced and novice administrators alike, appreciate Adonis™ 1750R and 1750RH"s advanced features including:

• Hot-swappable power supplies and hot-swappable secured RAID hard-drives
• Manage both DNS and DHCP in a single scalable appliance
• Comprehensive suite of tools and wizards to ease deployment and administration
• Built in firewall and security for protection against threats and attacks
• XHA™ High Availability and Failover for DNS and DHCP
• Industry leading scalability, resiliency and availability
• Pre NAC — designed to work with LDAP/RADIUS/AD/Kerberos and RSA Secure ID.

Key Features

• Reliable DNS and DHCP server supporting re-definable options
• Customization for specific VoIP integrations (ENUM and NAPTR records)
• Support for DNS and DHCP in the IPv4 and IPv6 Name Space, including IPv6 DHCP support for Microsoft Windows Vista™
• Active Directory Certified by Microsoft® including full integration and Windows® 2000 and 2003 DNS services and full support for DDNS updates
• Error checking DNS and DHCP configurations
• Deliver high availability with up to 99.999% uptime
• Advanced DHCP MAC Authentication for Network Access Control
• Full support for DNS Anycast — a technique for assigning a common IP address to multiple servers providing the same service, in order to provide load balancing and redundancy

Ease of Use and Reliability

• Intuitive GUI interface streamlines and improves configuration accuracy for critical DNS/DHCP services
• Built-in error checking to ensure that DNS and DHCP are configured correctly
• Advanced navigation features improve efficiencies, reduce learning curves and enable administrators with varying skills levels to manage and deploy the network
• XHA™ for high availability and failover and DHCP failover across WAN for remote office redundancy

Flexibility and Scalability

• Delegated administration rights for granular access control
• Integrated Network Access Controls with support for LDAP/RADIUS/AD/Kerberos
• Scalable to millions of IP addresses and thousand of locations
• Proteus IPAM™ Compatibility the Adonis 1750R and 1750RH provides resilient DNS and DHCP services for Proteus IPAM deployments

Lower Cost of Ownership

• Appliance based licensing — No costly per-IP Licensing models
• End-to-end DNS and DHCP solution, no additional modules required
• Lowest cost of implementation. Simple and intuitive wizard driven set-up and deployment makes installation simple