Nominum N2 Platform

The Nominum company announced in September, 2012 start of the Nominum N2 Platform platform and an ecosystem of Nominum IDEAL.

Thanks to the software of Nominum company more than 140 network operators have worldwide an opportunity to process over one trillion requests a day. This quantity significantly exceeds a mark of 6.5 billion daily search queries, "likes" and "tweets" in services Google, Facebook and Twitter, combined. The N2 Platform platform allows to collect and anonymize data, providing quick access to them for suppliers of applications. Thanks to this platform development process of applications and their additional functionality became much faster and simple, than creating applications from scratch that allowed to reduce total cost of ownership. Besides, the N2 Platform platform simplifies application integration with the existing systems for network operators, thereby providing an ability to manage with work of network elements for the purpose of fast delivery of applications to the market.

Nominum IDEAL ecosystem for suppliers of applications working at the N2 Platform platform gives the chance to develop and integrate software applications, allowing to start them over the N2 Platform platform. Thanks to this solution network operators can use infrastructure of DNS for fast and cost-efficient deployment of high-functional applications for the purpose of differentiation the services.

"Use of data of DNS for assessment of operability of network, its performance or quality improvement of provision of services to its users is normal represented labor-intensive process. Tools for collecting, consolidation, anonymization and data analysis were insufficiently effective — the chairman of the board of Nominum company doctor Paul Mokapetris who created the DNS system says. — The N2 Platform platform allows to simplify process of collecting of large volume of data in real time and to facilitate creation of new applications and also their integration with the systems of other network operators".

Supplier list of the applications working at a basis of an ecosystem of IDEAL new names, in particular filled up recently Guavus, Nixu and DomiNIC companies. These and many other companies offer the innovation applications, work-related users, security and data visualization which can be started easily over the N2 Platform platform.

Besides, the Nominum company released six new applications developed over the N2 Platform platform.

• the Nominum Subscriber Safety application provides protection of users against websites with the malware during the work on any device;
• the Nominum Network Security application limits outgoing spam, provides protection of important network resources and users;
• the Nominum Personal Internet application simplifies personalisation of the home Internet for users;
• the Nominum Network View application provides direct access for management of the highest level of networks with a possibility of transition to more detailed data;
• the Nominum Configuration Manager application accelerates processing of transactions in the DNS system and reduces management expenses thanks to the graphical user interface;
• the Nominum Content Filtering application provides protection of home PCs and mobile devices against sources of illegal or offensive contents.