Case Study: Universite de Montreal achieves resilient, manageable DNS/DHCP and simplified IPAM with Infoblox

Universite de Montreal - Customer Case Study

Universite de Montréal, Quebec’s largest research institution with more than 55,000 students, faced growing operational strain from a fragmented DNS/DHCP environment: multiple UNIX servers with different OS and open‑source versions, a complex in‑house IPAM, difficult monitoring, DHCP pool shortages, LDAP authentication/delegation issues, and an upcoming move to a private Class A address space. The IT team concluded the homegrown system was compromising availability and becoming unsustainable.

They deployed Infoblox-1050 and -550 appliances running NIOS and Infoblox Grid technology to centralize DNS, DHCP and IPAM. The appliance-based solution delivered resilient, HA operations, unified management, one‑button disaster recovery, and seamless upgrades—condensing months of work into hours—eliminating spreadsheets and manual IP tracking, improving reliability, security and scalability, and freeing admin resources.

Universite de Montreal

Michel L’Heureux

Director of Telecommunications, Universite de Montreal