Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU) today announced that Industry and Construction Bank (Promstroybank) of St. Petersburg, Russia, has selected Lucent's award-winning VitalQIP Domain Name Server/Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DNS/DHCP) solution for securely managing IP addresses for more than 3,000 workstations in its corporate network.
The solution is being delivered by AstroSoft, a local software integrator, and AMTEL, a Lucent accredited sales business partner.
The VitalQIP solution was chosen for its ease-of-use, centralized management, high availability, reliability, and various reporting options.
"The competition in the banking services market is growing very fast," said Vadim Konovalenko, the head of Promstroybank's communications department. " Lucent's VitalQIP solution will allow us to automate services management, significantly reduce provisioning time, improve network performance and tighten security of the bank's network. It will also improve the quality of service and our customers' overall communication experience."
Using Lucent's best-of-breed IP management software, Promstroybank has deployed the Lucent DHCP servers in a many-to-one failover configuration in conjunction with the Lucent DNS server. VitalQIP will be fully integrated with their Microsoft Active Directory implementation. These combined services ensure 100 percent uptime and a seamless approach to managing a continually changing network.
"Lucent Technologies' products and services that form the VitalSuite solution provide effective and easy-to-use tools for managing the enterprise IT infrastructure and quality of IT services. This is proven by the experience we gather when deploying the products for customers and at our own test bed," said Vadim Oskotsky, chief of AMTEL project managers department.
"Many large corporate customers worldwide effectively use Lucent's products for network management," said Dmitry Dorokhov, Lucent Technologies Russia and CIS GBP (Global Business Partner) Director. "The Promstroybank's choice of Lucent's VitalQIP solution and activities of AMTEL, our accredited partner for VitalQIP validate that Russian corporate customers are interested in the effective network management solutions which Lucent offers."