BlueCat Provided Support and Expertise, as well as a Resilient, Scalable, and Redundant Network to University College Dublin

Over the years, University College Dublin (UCD) built its own DDI infrastructure, consisting of BIND DNS and DHCP as well as several Red Hat servers. They also created an in-house IPAM solution that allowed its network team to easily create address ranges and edit IP data. However, the network was growing rapidly and placing more demands on the current system. The growth and increasing demand on the network put pressure on the already-tight resources, and the University did not want to be in a precarious position where its networks management group was stretched too thin. As resources left the team, it was becoming harder and harder to run the in-house solution. It made logical sense to move to a managed commercial DDI project where they had robust expertise and extensive support. In addition, UCD was in the process of upgrading to IPv6. They were operating a dual stack and had IPv6 running on a few test networks. As they looked for a new IPAM product, this was something that had to be addressed.

University College Dublin (UCD) was founded in 1854 as the Catholic University of Ireland by John Henry Cardinal Newman. After a few iterations as the Royal University and a constituent college of the National University of Ireland, UCD became an independent college in 1997. Today, UCD is recognized as one of Europe’s leading research institutions, and it is ranked in the top 1% among international universities. Considered to be Ireland’s most globally engaged university, UCD has a population of more than 30,000 students from 120 countries, and 5,500 students are located outside of Ireland. A major contributor to modern Ireland with a rich history, UCD has produced numerous Irish Presidents, Prime Ministers, as well as business, cultural, and sports leaders, including the writer James Joyce in 1902.