Case Study: The Catholic Education Network (CEnet) achieves seamless, secure, scalable DNS management with Infoblox Grid

The Catholic Education Network (CEnet) - Customer Case Study

The Catholic Education Network (CEnet) is a not-for-profit ICLT organization that supports Catholic diocese education networks across New South Wales, Queensland and the ACT, serving about 330,000 staff and students. CEnet faced scaling and risk issues from a legacy DNS system built on four VM BIND9 servers with IP address management tracked in Excel and managed largely by one person overseas; cloud DNS options didn’t meet their need for combined internal and external DNS and they required a secure, user-friendly GUI for distributed administrators.

CEnet deployed Infoblox Trinzic TE-1420 appliances with Infoblox DNS on an Infoblox Grid, plus DNS Firewall and RPZ, achieving a seamless, zero-downtime migration. The new solution delivered an intuitive GUI, simplified day-to-day and delegated management, plug-and-play Grid upgrades, enforced safe-search for Google Apps for Education, reduced DNS latency and spam lookups, and overwhelmingly positive feedback from users from day one.

The Catholic Education Network (CEnet)

Andrew Frodsham

Systems Specialist, CEnet