BlueCat Adonis 1750R
Adonis 1750R Carrier Class DNS/DHCP Appliance for the Enterprise
Adonis 1750R DNS and DHCP appliance from BlueCat Networks offers the same award-winning capabilities of the Adonis 1000 appliance now in a carrier-grade network appliance. Designed to meet the needs of the most demanding networks, the Adonis 1750R is a 1U rack-mountable appliance delivering industry leading performance with built-in hot-swappable power supplies and hot-swappable secured RAID hard-drives. The Adonis 1750R provides advanced levels of service availability for DNS and DHCP whether deployed in high availability or as a standalone server. Like all BlueCat's Adonis appliances, the Adonis 1750R is designed to easily integrate with the industry-leading Proteus IPAM solution.
Management Intelligence
The award-winning Adonis Management Console (AMC) enables unified management of all Adonis appliances on your network, combining sophisticated software tools and wizards with powerful timesaving features. Based on powerful cross-platform Java technology, the AMC simplifies the management of complex IPv4 and IPv6 DNS and DHCP services. Experienced and novice administrators alike, appreciate Adonis 1750R's advanced features including:
The Adonis 1750R DNS/DHCP Appliance is the indispensable ingredient that optimizes today's enterprise networks for efficient, secure operation and reliable availability.
- Hot-swappable power supplies and hot-swappable secured RAID hard-drives
- Manage both DNS and DHCP in a single scalable appliance
- Comprehensive suite of tools and wizards to ease deployment and administration
- Built in firewall and security for protection against threats and attacks
- Simple intuitive GUI interface reduce learning curve for administrators
- XHA High Availability and Failover for DNS and DHCP
- Industry leading scalability, resiliency and availability
- Pre and Post NAC designed to work with LDAP/ RADIUS/ AD/ Kerberos and RSA Secure ID. Seamlessly integration with post-admission NAC appliances for defense-in-depth network access control.
Key Features
- Reliable DHCP server supporting re-definable options enabling customization for specific VoIP integrations (ENUM and NAPTR records)
- Support for DNS and DHCP in the IPv4 and IPv6 Name Space, including IPv6 DHCP support for Microsoft Windows Vista
- Simplified Editing with Multiple Undo/Redo
- Active Directory Certified by Microsoft®- Integration and Windows® 2000 DNS services and full support for DDNS updates
- Error checking DNS and DHCP configurations
- Deliver high availability with up to 99.999% uptime
- Advanced DHCP MAC Authentication for Network Access Control
- Real time lease viewer
- Full support for Anycast a technique for assigning a common IP address to multiple servers providing the same service, in order to provide load balancing and redundancy
Ease of Use and Reliability
- Intuitive GUI interface streamlines and improves configuration accuracy for critical DNS/DHCP services
- Built-in error checking to ensure no DNS or DHCP mis-configurations occur
- Wizard driven set-up and deployment enables “cookie-cutter configurations
- Advanced navigation features improve efficiencies, reduce learning curves and enable administrators with varying skills levels to manage and deploy the network
- XHA for high availability and failover, DHCP failover across WAN for remote office redundancy
Flexibility and Scalability
- Delegated administration rights for granular access control
- Integrated Network Access Controls with support for LDAP/RADIUS/AD/Kerberos
- Scalable to millions of IP addresses and thousand of locations
- Proteus IPAM Compatibility the Adonis 1750R provides resilient DNS and DHCP services for Proteus IPAM deployments
Lower Cost of Ownership
- Appliance based licensing No costly per-IP Licensing models
- End-to-end DNS and DHCP solution, no additional modules required
- Lowest cost of implementation. Simple and intuitive wizard driven set-up and deployment makes installation simple


