IPv6 News

New DNS Caching Engine Release Surpasses One Million Queries Per Second, Providing A More Powerful Engine For Nominum’s Three-Tiered DNS Architecture

More than 500 million users depend on Nominum-powered networks around the world every day. Fixed broadband and mobile service providers look to Nominum for its three-tiered network architecture: the engines, which are about speed and efficiency, platforms to enable analytics and network and subscriber services, and applications that range from subscriber safety to parental controls. Nominum’s Vantio DNS Caching engine is now producing performance results exceeding 1 million DNS queries per second — creating the highest performance available for our carrier-grade engine that has powered the world’s largest networks for over a decade. Nominum engines now exceed the requirements of the most extreme networks being deployed today, and run on standard, off-the-shelf appliances (no special hardware is needed).

“We’re pleased to be the first to reach the ‘1 million queries per second’ milestone, but have always recognized performance is just one part of the answer,” said Gary Messiana, CEO of Nominum. “Network operators must improve efficiency, differentiate their offerings and increase agility to succeed in their hyper-competitive markets. With Vantio DNS Caching serving as a core engine, we also deliver the network services, subscriber services and analytics that are critical to network operators’ future successes. ”

With the latest Vantio release, Nominum’s platform allows service providers to rapidly deliver innovative application-based services to control spam, improve subscriber safety, manage botnet activity and much more. This new approach gives network operators modular platform-based and easy-to-use tools that allow them to quickly release new initiatives and increase revenue by enabling new fee-based subscriber services. It also provides greater differentiation with a wide variety of applications that can be tailored to each provider’s markets and subscriber bases.

Nominum also recently released updated versions of our DNSPerf and ResPerf, the most widely used free DNS testing tools. The new versions of DNSPerf and ResPerf can be found here. Additionally, we have released a white paper that discusses how to use the free DNSPerf and ResPerf tools, along with best practices for testing caching DNS servers. This paper can be found here.

The Nominum Vantio Caching 5.3 release and updated versions of DNSPerf and ResPerf are available now.

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The survey comes a month before World IPv6 day on June 6, which will see many websites working to the IPv6 protocol permanently activated, the BBC reports.
Complete info at RadioNZ.

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IPv6 is central to safeguarding the expansion of the internet, but the global deployment of the protocol raises its own security challenges, says Axel Pawlik.
Complete info at ZDNet.

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Apple released a new developer preview of its Remote Desktop management software on Friday, bringing support for the IPv6 protocol and a host of new items available for fault reporting.
Complete info at AppleInsider.

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About 37.1 percent of networks in Malaysia and 29.1 percent in Singapore can work with IPv6 traffic, according to a report compiled by Europe’s net address overseer, RIPE.
Complete info at MIS-Asia.

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Interop attendees can visit F5’s booth to learn about the dynamic data center, cloud, application delivery, security, and view a demo with Microsoft focused on agile cloud deployments.
Complete info at EON and Sys-Con.

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Norway is leading the way in preparing for the move to the net’s new addressing scheme, a survey has shown.
Complete info at BBC and DemocraticUnderground.

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With the exhaustion of Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4), the Advance Science and Technology Institute of the Department of Science and Technology (ASTI-DOST), along with various concerned sectors, is pushing for the adoption of Internet Protocol Version 6 or IPv6, which is considered as the future of the Internet.
Complete info at mb.

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Delivered positive net income and EBITDA of $0.5M Secured key wins around the globe for MTT, RxTTM and Cable RF products Announced new RxT capabilities including 10G SONET/SDH, IPv6, Copper and VoIP testing Introduced and demonstrated packetWORXTM IPTV analysis solution.
Complete info at GNT and TMWorld.

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HCC-Embedded today announced the release of a MISRA compliant TCP/IP stack for Texas Instruments’ (TI) Hercules(TM) ARM(R) Safety Microcontrollers (MCUs).
Complete info at MarketWatch, GNT and Virtual-Strategy.

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