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	Internet/Intranet
	IP Address Management Tool: Bay Networks NetID Take charge of your network. With more devices than ever sporting NICs with TCP/IP stacks, keeping tabs on all those thousands of IP addresses is becoming a huge problem. Effective solutions this past year included binding DHCP to DNS to create a DDNS, or dynamic DNS system, and a growing number of applications for simplifying management. But of all of the IP address solutions that we reviewed this year, Bay Networks NetID was the most viable of the bunch. NetID takes charge of the thousands of IP addresses with minimal fuss. Its powerful back-end database allows several people to edit IP addresses at the same time, eliminating the common frustration of having your changes erased by someone who is concurrently editing IP addresses. Another promising product in this field is Network Telesystems' Shadow IP Management System. Distinctive details--like its graphical leader-board of assigned IP addresses and the fact that it features the first redundant DHCP servers--hint that we can expect a lot from this vendor in the coming year. NetID, $14,000, Bay Networks, (800) 8-BAYNET, www.baynetworks.com

	Honorable Mention: Shadow IP Management System, $5,000 to $35,000, Network Telesystems, (800) 990-4776, (408) 523-8100. www.nts.com QIP 4.0, $2 to $5 per address (based on volume), Quadritek Systems, (800) 408-2747, (610) 725-8535. www.quadritek.com The Well-Connected Winners Table of Contents Print This Page

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