“I think they had this revelation moment when they got hit with a virus in February 2004, and that pretty much pushed their DNS servers over the edge at that time,” says Gouyet. “So this is one of those where they knew they had to do something. They waited for the water to get really warm. And when it started boiling, they reached a point where they had to go ahead and really upgrade their servers.”
Gouyet explains that broadband service providers like Telefonica are realizing a need to upgrade their networks in response to the growth in subscribers, applications and traffic. Prior to settling on the Nominum solution, Gouyet says Telefonica was considering adding caching name servers in two additional data centers, which would have brought to four the number of its data centers outfitted with such solutions. Instead, he says, Telefonica upgraded its existing two caching name server locations — which had been using BIND DNS platforms — with Nominum products. “So the benefits are on the hardware procurement side,” says Gouyet.
“But there’s also the cost to managing more servers,” which Telefonica avoided by moving the Nominum servers, he adds.
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| Nominum Inc. www.nominum.com Telefonica S.A. www.telefonica.com |
