Introduction; Scope; Audience; Introduction To Ip Management - Alcatel-Lucent VitalQIP 7.2 Product Description

VitalQIP Product Description

1 INTRODUCTION

1.1 Scope

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VitalQIP is the industry's leading IP management software product. This product description provides a
detailed technical and marketing description of VitalQIP. This includes background on the basics of IP
management; the business needs and value proposition, and an overview of the product itself, including
the latest release 7.2 features. This document should be used and viewed in conjunction with the most
current VitalQIP 7.2 Release Notes and Web Client User's Guide.

1.2 Audience

This document is intended for Sales, Marketing, Product Management, Services, Business Partners and
Information Delivery personnel requiring an in-depth description of VitalQIP
capabilities.

1.3 Introduction to IP Management

It can be argued that VitalQIP, or QIP as it was originally named, created the IP management software
market. QIP was first released to the market in 1995 based on a request from J P Morgan for a software
application to manage their IP address space. They required a single centralized inventory of their IP
addresses, how their IP space was subnetted and which addresses were assigned where. Now, 13+ years
later and with over 850 customers worldwide, VitalQIP is still the industry-leading product. The basic
requirements of IP Address Management, coupled with required DNS and DHCP services, have not
changed over the years. What have changed are the network trends and requirements of these networks
that have made having a consolidated system like VitalQIP essential to both enterprise and service
provider companies. VitalQIP has met these growing trends in every way – whether it be responding to
new technologies such as IPv6, VoIP, or ENUM; or meeting the needs of our customers by introducing
the Alcatel-Lucent Appliances; or providing tools, such as better reporting and Workflow Manager, and
thereby continuing to provide automation and efficiencies in customers' networks. The explosion of IP-
enabled devices and networks, along with policies and procedures has further escalated customers' needs
for a proven, scalable IP Address Management solution in their architectures today. With the ever-
changing market dynamics in hardware and direction, the VitalQIP solution continues to be the most
flexible in the market today, providing either a software solution integrated with multiple platforms, or a
full appliance-based hardware/software solution.

1.4 Benefits/value proposition

VitalQIP provides the following benefits:
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Automation of IP address assignment increases end user productivity and reduces manual processes
as well as help desk calls.
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Accurate, centralized IP network inventory reduces address assignment errors and links IP device
addresses to domain names. It also improves network moves/adds/changes processes by providing IP
address visibility to the individual object level, not just subnet block.
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Subnetting tools simplify and improve accuracy of subnetting operations and reduce the requirement
to remember binary arithmetic.
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