Opening the door to an efficiently managed IP future

Challenge

IP addresses are the unique identifiers that enable devices such as computers and printers to recognise and talk to each other across the internet and corporate infrastructures. It’s essential that they’re well managed: allocating the same IP address twice would be catastrophic.
As a world-leading service provider BT already uses 70 million IP addresses. And the job of managing them is getting harder. “That quantity is growing rapidly as the company strives to support demand for new network-attached devices from both internal users and external customers,” explains Kevin Bates, Lead Designer for IP Address Management in BT Innovate and Design.