Boise State ditches Cisco DNS

"I spent a few weeks on my own learning the interfaces on the Adonis system, the GUI interface and the command-line interface, until I had a good comfort level. Then I did a testbed of two small buildings…to roll them onto the system for DNS and DHCP so we could test our Active Directory integration and our VoIP to make sure we had no issues," she explains.

Dragone said it took three weeks to migrate the entire campus network to the DNS and DHCP services from the BlueCat appliances.

"We had no helpdesk calls as a result of the conversion," she says. "People didn't really know it happened."

Dragone's favorite features of the Adonis system are the search capabilities and the instantaneous replication between the master and slave systems. She says she can patch the appliances in the middle of the work day, rather than scheduling off-hours maintenance.

Boise State hasn't experienced any outages or other significant problems with the BlueCat appliances.