Nominum and Cablevision Argentina Sign Agreement for DNS and SKYE Network Protection Services

According to recent reports, Nominum’s (News - Alert) Vantio Intelligent DNS System has been selected by Cablevisión Argentina to provide caching DNS services and SKYE Network Protection Service (NPS).

These services will help Cablevisión Argentina to reduce the incidence of bot and other malicious network traffic throughout its broadband network. Cablevision Argentina was worried about the bots, which was steady drain on its network resources, consuming on average 10-25 percent of a service provider's traffic depending on the geographic region.

However, with SKYE NPS, a service hosted on the Nominum Global Network providing real-time data, Cablevision has now got features like threat detection, validation, and enforcement with no additional third-party hardware or software integration.

“At Cablevisión we are constantly searching for technology to improve the reliability of our network and the experience of our customers,” said Gabriel Carro, engineering manager at Cablevisión Argentina, in a statement. “SKYE NPS achieves these goals in a single hosted solution leveraging the Vantio Intelligent DNS System infrastructure. No other technology we evaluated combines the most advanced detection system with the ability to take action on the spot nor offers the same level of system integration.”

“This service is truly a milestone in our goal of delivering a better Internet for all users,” said Gopala Tumuluri, chief technology officer at Nominum. “SKYE NPS brings to bear our decade-plus of knowledge supporting our service provider customers around the world to reduce malicious traffic and represents a dramatic shift in methodology for detection and mitigation of malicious traffic utilizing DNS as the platform.”

The project was developed in partnership with solutions provider Logicalis Southern Cone.

“Our goal is always to thoroughly understand customer issues and then implement best-of-breed technology to provide a solution. We were happy to bring together these two industry leaders for the benefit of broadband subscribers throughout Argentina,” said Rodrigo Parreira, CEO of Logicalis (News - Alert) Southern Cone.

In other news, Carahsoft Technology Corp., the trusted government IT solutions provider, recently announced that it has partnered with Nominum to bring world-class DNS solutions to government agencies. Under the agreement Carahsoft will serve as a contract aggregator and government distribution partner for Nominum providing dedicated sales, marketing and order management resources to support Nominum's government efforts and drive demand for Nominum solutions within the public sector market.

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Edited by Jennifer Russell