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Alcatel-Lucent | ENUM Use and Management for the Successful Deployment of ENUM-Enabled Services
The ability to quickly locate specific NAPTR records and providing the administrator tools to take the
desired action drastically improves ENUM management over stand-alone BIND support. Users can
search NAPTR records by either domain or subscriber. Tools provided allow addition, modification,
and deletion of NAPTR records.
To handle the growth of ENUM domains, the ENUM manager features the ability to split and
merge ENUM domains to manage the size of ENUM zone files used in DNS servers. ENUM zones can
be split at the country code, city code, area code, exchange level, and potentially between any digit
in the E.164 number. VitalQIP ENUM Manager provides broad domain management capabilities
to the administrator. Through the user-friendy GUI (see Figure 7 below), domains can be split, merged,
and deleted quickly. An administrator simply highlights the desired domains, clicks on the appropriate
button, and the appropriate zone files are manipulated as desired. Over time, as needs change, an
administrator can easily rearrange the ENUM domains to improve performance.
Figure 6: VitalQIP ENUM Manager NAPTR Record Search
Figure 7: VitalQIP ENUM Manager E.164 Domain Management
