BT Global Services' Diamond IP service and technology distribution company ASM Technologies have forged a distribution deal.
BT Diamond IP provides DHCP, DNS, and IPAM (DDI) software, appliance and managed services solutions, and through partnering with ASM Technologies in the UK and the majority of EMEA countries, BT Diamond IP's full range of IPv4/IPv6 address management product solutions will be available to a base of systems integrators and VARs.
BT Diamond IP is part of the BT Connect portfolio of products and services which enable customers to intelligently manage their data networks.
BT Diamond IP delivers integrated IP address management appliances, software and managed services for enterprises, service providers and governments.
The partnership with ASM will allow BT to concentrate on its own core Global Services customers while ASM and its resellers address markets not yet approached by BT Diamond IP.
IP address management (IPAM) tools are increasingly important as organisations manage multiple IP services and begin to plan and deploy IPv6.
IP underpins all communication over the Internet, and as IPv4 address space exhausts, IPv6 deployment is essential to ensure the internet's continued reliability and performance.
For enterprises this means they must ensure their infrastructure, services and applications are IPv6 compatible to support deployment of IPv6 address space, while maintaining their existing IPv4 infrastructure investment. IP address management tools help to manage this process.
"Deployment of IPv6 should be among the key target milestones for customers to keep pace with the continuous evolution of the internet," states Michael Dooley at BT Diamond IP and author of the IPv6 Deployment and Management book.
"Our most recent IPv6 industry survey suggests that over half of the world's enterprises are already deploying or plan to deploy IPv6 across all or part of their networks by 2015. This is a significant market opportunity as enterprises may require assessment, planning and deployment assistance to deploy IPv6 as smoothly as possible without disrupting their critical network infrastructure."
Iain Tomkinson, Sales Director at ASM Technologies, added: "The clock is ticking on IPv4 so there has never been a better time for enterprises to make the transition."