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AEMET Agencia Estatal de Meteorología opts for EfficientIP to protect its DDI systems and guarantee the visibility of the network

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Technology Category	Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
Applicable Industries	Utilities
Applicable Functions	Business Operation
Use Cases	Process Control & Optimization Real-Time Location System (RTLS)
Services	System Integration Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
Challenge	AEMET, the National Meteorological Service and State Meteorological Authority of Spain, needed to improve its performance by acquiring a centralized tool for the management of all IP addressing. The tool needed to be robust and scalable to guarantee DHCP and DNS services. The previous solution solved the DNS functionality, but its architecture on the relays module and the IPAM module was practically obsolete. There was no interaction between the information of the DHCP and DNS modules on the IPAM addressing database, which caused cost overruns and occasional compatibility problems. Given the intrinsic relationship of the three DDI functionalities, and the upcoming completion of support for DNS, DHCP and IPAM services, the acquisition of an integrating proposal such as that offered by EfficientIP was considered a necessity. Read More
About Customer	The Agencia Estatal de Meteorología (AEMET), which reports to the Ministry for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge through the Secretary of State for the Environment, is tasked with providing quality meteorological services for an adequate prediction and monitoring of adverse meteorological phenomena, thus contributing to the safety of people and goods, and to the well-being and sustainable development of Spanish society. As the National Meteorological Service and State Meteorological Authority, AEMET is responsible for planning, directing, developing, and coordinating the Agency’s meteorological and climatological information, forecasting, warnings, observation, announcements, public service, dissemination and information activities. Its organisational structure follows a model of functional and territorial decentralisation to provide a meteorological service to meet citizens’ needs, with its Central Services located in Madrid and Regional Offices in each of the Autonomous Communities. The Agency has its Head Office in Madrid, with a Regional Office in each of the Autonomous Communities. Read More
Solution	The solution chosen was the deployment of two SOLIDserver 570-DDI devices from EfficientIP. These devices offer a more open management of all IP addressing than other options on the market and boast a fully user-friendly management console. The SOLIDserver range of devices has also been designed to offer highly scalable, secure, and robust hardware and virtual appliances for critical IPAM-DNS-DHCP-NTP- TFTP services. A series of SOLIDserver 570-DDI devices consolidates DHCP services, ensuring continuity based on an active-active DHCP failover architecture and high-availability hardware platforms. The roll-out and management of this architecture is fully automated and is performed in a comprehensive process by SmartArchitecture, an innovation which provides a set of DNS/DHCP architecture templates that can be applied to a range of servers. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing

Applicable Industries

Utilities

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Use Cases

Process Control & Optimization

Real-Time Location System (RTLS)

Services

System Integration

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

Challenge

AEMET, the National Meteorological Service and State Meteorological Authority of Spain, needed to improve its performance by acquiring a centralized tool for the management of all IP addressing. The tool needed to be robust and scalable to guarantee DHCP and DNS services. The previous solution solved the DNS functionality, but its architecture on the relays module and the IPAM module was practically obsolete. There was no interaction between the information of the DHCP and DNS modules on the IPAM addressing database, which caused cost overruns and occasional compatibility problems. Given the intrinsic relationship of the three DDI functionalities, and the upcoming completion of support for DNS, DHCP and IPAM services, the acquisition of an integrating proposal such as that offered by EfficientIP was considered a necessity.

About Customer

The Agencia Estatal de Meteorología (AEMET), which reports to the Ministry for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge through the Secretary of State for the Environment, is tasked with providing quality meteorological services for an adequate prediction and monitoring of adverse meteorological phenomena, thus contributing to the safety of people and goods, and to the well-being and sustainable development of Spanish society. As the National Meteorological Service and State Meteorological Authority, AEMET is responsible for planning, directing, developing, and coordinating the Agency’s meteorological and climatological information, forecasting, warnings, observation, announcements, public service, dissemination and information activities. Its organisational structure follows a model of functional and territorial decentralisation to provide a meteorological service to meet citizens’ needs, with its Central Services located in Madrid and Regional Offices in each of the Autonomous Communities. The Agency has its Head Office in Madrid, with a Regional Office in each of the Autonomous Communities.

Solution

The solution chosen was the deployment of two SOLIDserver 570-DDI devices from EfficientIP. These devices offer a more open management of all IP addressing than other options on the market and boast a fully user-friendly management console. The SOLIDserver range of devices has also been designed to offer highly scalable, secure, and robust hardware and virtual appliances for critical IPAM-DNS-DHCP-NTP- TFTP services. A series of SOLIDserver 570-DDI devices consolidates DHCP services, ensuring continuity based on an active-active DHCP failover architecture and high-availability hardware platforms. The roll-out and management of this architecture is fully automated and is performed in a comprehensive process by SmartArchitecture, an innovation which provides a set of DNS/DHCP architecture templates that can be applied to a range of servers.

Impact #1	Centralisation of network administration and services.
Impact #2	Notable improvement in business continuity.
Impact #3	Overall control and visibility.

Impact #1

Centralisation of network administration and services.

Impact #2

Notable improvement in business continuity.

Impact #3

Overall control and visibility.

Benefit #1	Cost and labour savings.

Benefit #1

Cost and labour savings.

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AEMET Agencia Estatal de Meteorología opts for EfficientIP to protect its DDI systems and guarantee the visibility of the network

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