High-availability DHCP for industrial networks

"DHCP is a small yet very vital service for a network. So I wanted a dedicated, easy to manage solution that worked right out the box – essentially just a plug-and-play appliance that simply dished out IP addresses."

– Sarath Palety, Network Project Manager,
UK Gov, Department For Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy

DNSBOX for DHCP: MAKES FAILOVER EASY

High-availability is essential to minimise unforeseen downtime – but without failover, DHCP can be a single point of failure on your network. Complex and time consuming, failover usually requires enormous technical expertise to set up and maintain.

On DNSBOX for DHCP, failover or redundancy can be set up and monitored in a few simple clicks with options to suit different network topologies. DNSBOX200 failover pairs share configuration, ensuring that they never 'disagree' about the network. They also dynamically share available addresses and information about current leases.

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Like firewalls and access points, DHCP is one of the few things that need to be kept on-premise.

‐ UK Gov, Dept. of Business, Energy and Industry Strategy

THE DEDICATED, ON-SITE DHCP SERVER

Companies are increasingly migrating IT infrastructure from physical servers to cloud-based solutions like AWS or Azure, but moving DHCP to the cloud creates a single point of failure. DHCP is, therefore, one service that really must remain on-site. It doesn't make sense to maintain MS server – and its licence cost – solely for DHCP.

Where router-based solutions can't offer the required level of performance, DIY open-source solutions are incredibly complex and a drain on resources. DNSBOX for DHCP is a dedicated, on-premises server that can either replace existing DHCP infrastructure or integrate with Azure as a relay agent, giving network managers full control of this critical network service.

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FIT-FOR-PURPOSE NETWORK SOLUTIONS

Technicians cannot afford to spend time working around the limitations of basic DHCP solutions. They need a fully featured, dedicated server that makes common tasks simple and complex tasks, like failover, straightforward.

With a range of models to suit different performance requirements, you won't pay for processing grunt that you will never use. Instead, you'll be able to select a solution that closely fits your need and your budget.

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DNSBOX does what it claims to do. The pre-sales and post-sales support is excellent.

‐ Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, UK

EXPERT TECHNICAL SUPPORT

The ApplianSys team doesn't just sell products, we also support our customers throughout the device's lifetime. The DNSBOX support package gives network admins staff peace of mind and access to the engineers who designed and built the appliance. This gives plant-floor engineering teams personalised technical feedback, troubleshooting support and an annual deployment review to make sure that the device is working to its full capacity.

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CASE STUDY: GE Appliances

When the largest manufacturing plant in the US needed highly available, stable and reliable DHCP for their production and quality testing lines, DNSBOX gave them the fit-for-purpose server without the hassle of a DIY solution or the cost of a full DDI solution.

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The world's best DHCP server

Since 2002, DNSBOX has served customers around the world in all sectors and sizes, including service providers, enterprises, educational institutions and government organizations.

So in 2021, having seen enquiries about DHCP solutions continuing to grow, and aware of the dissatisfaction with the solutions out there, we decided to re-build the DNSBOX family's DHCP solution from the ground up.

Having evaluated the final product in detail, expert customers confirm that this new major release of the DNSBOX DHCP server is the full-featured, failover-ready solution that Network Managers have been looking for.

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