Santa Clara, CA USA
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INS offers a comprehensive set of business and technology consulting services and software solutions to help organizations reduce operational risk, increase productivity, and support revenue growth. Our IT Infrastructure Consulting Services deliver secure, business-centric infrastructures that integrate network, security, and storage technologies with best-practice operational frameworks. Our Immedient Business Solutions streamline and enhance business processes for enterprise project management and collaboration and analytics. And our Diamond IP Software provides flexible and scalable software solutions for managing today's complex IP networks. We have delivered tens of thousands of successful engagements worldwide over more than a decade of operation.

ImageControl is the world's market-leading DOCSIS/Euro-DOCSIS device firmware management system. ImageControl enables cable providers to model their topology and discover any variety of customer premises equipment (CPE) such as cable modems, MTAs, set top boxes, and any Euro-DOCSIS compatible device to assure accurate device inventory and firmware version management. ImageControl enables staging of multiple firmware images per device vendor and model and automated upgrading based upon a user defined schedule or upon device provisioning. ImageControl also provides the ability to define brick thresholds as well as upgrade prerequisites such as verification of "MTA on-hook" prior to upgrading the device, and enables centralized management of all CPE device firmware versions across data, voice, and converged cable services. IPControl™ software from INS is an innovative IP address management solution encompassing the entire life cycle of an IP address. IPControl provides Internet Registry interfaces, our patent-pending container feature to enable modeling of network hierarchy or topology, policies for address block allocation, subnet display and IP address drill down, and integrated DHCP and DNS server configuration, including support for multi-vendor DHCP/DNS servers including IPControl Sapphire appliances. Customers can benefit from deploying IPControl in automating their IP management processes by maintaining a centralized IP inventory with unsurpassed user definability, configuring multivendor DHCP and DNS servers, and proactively monitoring and auditing their IP address utilization - all with an easy-to-use, highly graphical, web interface. The IPControl product suite from INS is the world's most advanced IP address management solution, enabling cohesive IP management for data, VOIP, and converged IP services. IPControl products provide comprehensive features for IPv4 and IPv6 address management, individual IP address inventory, multi-vendor DHCP and DNS server configuration and management, and more. Among the many differentiating features of IPControl are its patent-pending container feature, enabling modeling of your multi-layered IP network topology, IPv4 and IPv6 support, integrated discovery, extensible CLI/APIs and system-initiated callouts, thresholds and alerts, extensive audit reports, address utilization tracking and reporting, unsurpassed user definability, and much more. IPControl products are available in appliance packaging with the IPControl Sapphire appliances and/or as software installable on Windows, Solaris, or Linux.