Generation UMTS

18th November, 2003

Above shows : Nominum Foundation Management Center

US : Nominum, a pioneering provider of IP address infrastructure software, today announced that 3, the first company to offer 3G mobile video communications services in Sweden, has purchased Nominum Foundation Management Center (FMC) to optimise the use and delegation of IP addresses across its worldwide network.

The increasing demand for advanced IP-based communication services makes efficient management and tracking of IP addresses a high priority for 3. The company is focused on delivering high quality, media-rich content including audio and video, to mobile devices for over 470,000 users in Europe. With new applications being delivered each day over the 3G network, 3 needed a solution that centralized the management and administration of the complex and evolving IP network and could scale to meet future demands of new services and applications.

“For us, FMC from Nominum will provide a significant improvement in efficiency. We have so far been working on an internal system to administrate IP addresses, but with more IP addresses and more networks, we need a better overview and a more systematised method,” says Ola Wahlin, operations/communication manager at 3.

Dimension, Nominum’s distribution partner serving the Nordic region, signed the deal with 3 and delivered the Nominum Foundation products to address the company’s need for a solution to help to effectively manage and administer its entire network structure. For over a year, Dimension has been Nominum’s representative in the Nordic countries and Baltic states, and recently closed a deal with COLT Telecom on behalf of Nominum.

“With the FMC application, responsibility for address allocation can be delegated without any risk of the same IP address being allocated to more than one unit. Formerly, relatively simple IP administration took up an unnecessary amount of time and effort on the part of network and IP experts, involving companies in high costs. Companies also suffer an unnecessarily high business risk by not having a good overview of their IP addresses,” said Per Berggren of Dimension.

Nominum Foundation Management Center is an enterprise-class IP address management system that enables companies to take control of their network identifiers, including domain names and IP addresses, thus reducing the risk of network downtime and increasing the flexibility of a network to support rapid growth and new services.. Nominum FMC makes it possible to centrally control IP data and policies through a web-based interface, relational database, and easy-to-use management application. Nominum FMC also manages Nominum’s Foundation Caching Name Server (CNS), Authoritative Name Server (ANS), and Dynamic Configuration Server (DCS), as well as BIND DNS servers.

About Nominum
Nominum is a pioneering provider of IP address infrastructure software for enterprises that require reliable and secure DNS, DHCP and IP address management for their mission critical networks. Nominum is driving the future of IP addressing. For more information about Nominum, go to www.nominum.com.

Note: Nominum, Nominum Foundation, and the Nominum logo are registered trademarks of Nominum Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders.

About 3
3 is the first operator in Scandinavia to commence offering mobile video communication. In Scandinavia, 3 is a joint venture between Hutchison Whampoa (60%) and Investor AB (40%). The two companies have major international networks and world-leading industrial and technological experience. Via Hutchison Whampoa, 3 leads the world in mobile video communication, with 3G licenses in Australia, Austria, Denmark, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Norway, Sweden and the UK. Swedish home page: www.tre.se.