DDI as a Service

Your entire DDI stack delivered as SaaS, that’s DDIaaS.

In the rapidly evolving digital landscape, enterprise business requires agile, scalable, and cost-effective network solutions to stay competitive. PCN's ClearSky DDI brings game-changing innovation, as the world's first full-stack, full-service, modular, API-centric and hybrid cloud solution. Designed with a customer-focused approach, ClearSky DDI offers unparalleled extensibility and customization, allowing organizations to deploy what they need, when they need it, and where they need it.

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Full-Stack DDI, Redefined

ClearSky DDI isn’t just another DNS, DHCP, and IPAM solution —it’s a Full-Stack platform that delivers everything you need to design, automate, and protect your network services from a single pane of glass.

Our Full-Stack approach brings together every layer of DDI, seamlessly integrated and API-driven:

  • Self-Service & Workflow Automation – Simplify complex network operations with safe automation and role-based self-service.

  • IP Address Management– Gain clarity and control with a single source of truth for your entire IP space.

  • Multi-Primary Authoritative DNS – Ensure global uptime and consistency across active-active DNS primaries.

  • DNS Cache – Deliver lightning-fast name resolution with built-in visibility and policy control.

  • DNS Load Balancing – Optimize query traffic and improve performance across distributed networks.

  • DNS Security Essentials – Protect users and infrastructure with integrated threat defense and traffic intelligence.

  • DHCP – Automate IP assignment with modern, high-performance lease management.

  • DHCP Load Balancing – Keep services available through smart redundancy and failover.

With ClearSky, Full-Stack means full visibility, full control, and full confidence —across on-premise, cloud, and hybrid environments.

Full-Service, Without Compromise

ClearSky DDI doesn’t stop at powerful technology — it’s backed by a Full-Service experience designed to keep your network running flawlessly, day and night.

Our Full-Service model combines proactive operations, continuous improvement, and personalized partnership — all delivered by experts who live and breathe DDI.

Here’s what that means for you:

  • 24/7/365 BAU Operations & Incident Management – Always-on support from seasoned engineers who know your environment.

  • 24/7/365 Monitoring – Continuous system health and performance visibility to prevent issues before they impact service.

  • Service Availability SLAs – Transparent commitments to uptime and reliability you can depend on.

  • Biennial Major Version Upgrades – Stay current with major platform enhancements every two years.

  • Minor Version Updates, Bug Fixes & Vulnerability Patches – Security and stability improvements applied seamlessly.

  • Systems Backups – Reliable protection of your configuration and data, with recovery when it counts.

  • Technical Documentation – Clear, up-to-date documentation to support every aspect of your service.

  • Technical Account Management – A dedicated point of contact who understands your environment and goals.

  • Weekly Tactical Meetings – Rapid feedback loops to address day-to-day priorities.

  • Monthly Service Reports – Transparent performance metrics and operational insight.

  • Quarterly Business Reviews – Strategic alignment sessions to plan, improve, and evolve together.

With ClearSky, Full-Service means more than support — it’s a partnership built on accountability, expertise, and continuous value.

Modular by Design

ClearSky DDI is built on a Modular Architecture — because one size should never have to fit all.

Instead of locking you into a monolithic platform, ClearSky divides DDI into smaller, independent, and interchangeable components — each best-in-class, each working together through a unified API and automation layer.

By integrating proven technologies like PowerDNS, Kea, and NetBox, ClearSky delivers flexibility without compromise. You can scale, upgrade, or swap components as your needs evolve — without disruption or vendor lock-in.

Whether you’re optimizing DNS performance, modernizing DHCP, or redefining how IP data is managed, ClearSky’s modular approach lets you build exactly what your environment needs — and nothing it doesn’t.

With ClearSky, Modular means adaptable, open, and future-ready.

API-Centric at the Core

ClearSky DDI is API-Centric by design — built around integration, not imitation.

At the heart of ClearSky is Torus, our intelligent middleware that connects DNS, DHCP, and IPAM components in real time through modern APIs. Instead of forcing every function into a single, monolithic database, Torus unifies best-of-breed technologies — like PowerDNS, Kea, and NetBox — through a lightweight, API-driven architecture.

This approach eliminates the rigidity of legacy OEM systems. No single database to bottleneck performance. No vendor-locked schema dictating how data must live. Just flexible, standards-based APIs enabling interoperability, automation, and innovation across your entire DDI ecosystem.

With ClearSky, API-Centric means open by default, real-time by nature, and ready for whatever comes next.

Hybrid Cloud, Simplified

ClearSky DDI was built for the real world — where networks span data centers, clouds, and everything in between.

Our Hybrid Cloud architecture gives you the freedom to deploy DDI wherever it makes the most sense — on-premise, in the cloud, or across both — while managing it all through a single, unified platform.

Run DNS, DHCP, and IPAM close to the edge for local survivability, extend services globally for resilience and scale, and control it all through ClearSky’s APIs and portal.

With ClearSky, hybrid isn’t an afterthought — it’s the foundation. You get the flexibility of the cloud, the control of on-prem, and the confidence of a platform designed for distributed, modern networks.

With ClearSky, Hybrid Cloud means connected, resilient, and built for how networks really operate.

Customizable to Fit You — Not the Other Way Around

ClearSky DDI is built to adapt to how you work — not to force your business to adapt to it.

Where legacy DDI tools lock you into rigid, opaque workflows, ClearSky gives you the freedom to define your own. Every process, from IP provisioning to change approvals, is driven by policies and workflows that can be tailored to match your organization’s structure, governance, and operational style.

Because ClearSky is workflow-based and policy-driven, it seamlessly integrates with your existing business processes, ticketing systems, and automation pipelines — instead of standing apart as another silo.

With ClearSky, Customizable means your DDI solution fits your organization’s DNA — not the constraints of a black-box tool.

Extensible by Nature

ClearSky DDI is designed to grow with you.

Through its API-driven architecture and the Torus middleware, ClearSky provides a foundation that’s ready to connect, extend, and evolve. Integrate directly with platforms like ServiceNow for automated service workflows, or use Torus to incorporate other network intelligence — from discovery tools to infrastructure data sources — in real time.

This extensibility means your DDI environment never stands still. As your network ecosystem expands, ClearSky expands with it — adding new capabilities, integrations, and data sources without re-architecture or disruption.

With ClearSky, Extensible means connected, evolving, and ready for what’s next.

 

Key Features

 

Comprehensive

OEM licensing, DNS security essentials, cloud hosting, platform management, monitoring & notification, self-service & automation, and PCN Flex Support for your business as usual (BAU) operations.

 

Scalability and Flexibility

Only pay for what you need. Utility pricing model, global reach, scale services up and down as your needs change.

 

Security and Reliability

Ensures a secure, reliable DDI infrastructure with regular updates and backups. Protect your organization from known vulnerabilities and emerging threats.

 

Intelligent Self-Service

A centralized, intuitive DDI Portal that simplifies complex management tasks, provides change guardrails and governance while ensuring streamlined operations.

 

Automated DDI Management

Simplifies network management by automating DDI allocations and reducing conflict risks.

 

API Integration

Comprehensive suite of APIs and a broad array of existing ITSM and ServiceNow integrations. 

 

Enforce best practices

Overlay Role Based Access Control (RBAC) policies to enforce best practices as well as to provide governance and compliance.

 

24/7 Support and Maintenance

Round-the-clock services for swift issue resolution and optimal network performance.

 

Cost-Effective Solution

Eliminate capital expenditure while reducing operational costs with our efficient and predictable pricing model. Provides a lower TCO than traditional DDI. 

 

Average TCO Savings on Over 3 Years

47%

Physical

19%

virtual

33%

50/50 Blend

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Unified Control for Modern DDI

Experience a powerful, API-driven interface that unifies DNS, DHCP, and IPAM across any OEM platform. The ClearSky Portal standardizes day-to-day network operations with 40+ change types and 600+ policy-driven workflows —delivering intelligent automation, real-time validation, and consistent auditing.

Customize terminology, deploy sites from templates, import multiple objects at once, and navigate DNS and IP space effortlessly. Whether managing PowerDNS, Kea, BlueCat, Infoblox, or VitalQIP, the ClearSky Portal ensures a consistent experience across all environments.

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Unified Visibility for Hybrid DDI

Gain complete visibility across DNS, DHCP, and IPAM—no matter the OEM. ClearSky Monitor delivers consistent, real-time insight into the health, performance, and availability of your DDI environment.

From PowerDNS to Kea, BlueCat, Infoblox, and beyond, it standardizes monitoring, alerting, and reporting across all platforms. Identify issues before they impact users, correlate events across systems, and maintain compliance through unified dashboards and automated checks. Built for scale and hybrid architectures, ClearSky Monitor ensures your network’s critical services remain resilient, observable, and secure.

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ClearSky DDI Orchestration Suite

Torus

How Does ClearSky Orchestrate Across Disparate DDI Components?

Torus, ClearSky’s middleware engine unifies a portfolio of disparate DNS, DHCP, and IPAM software into a single, API-centric DDI platform. Instead of relying on a proprietary monolithic database found in classic DDI solutions, Torus orchestrates real-time data exchange between best-of-breed components through standardized APIs.

Torus provides a consistent data model enabling ClearSky DDI to deliver flexible, modular DNS, DHCP, and IPAM services without vendor lock-in or legacy architectural constraints.

Torus

Can ClearSky Orchestrate Commercial DDI OEM Solutions?

Our ClearSky Portal has an abstraction layer that allows us to seemlessly integrate with leading Commercial DDI OEM Solutions, providing a consistent and intuitive UI and API across your estate.

PowerDNS

Why PowerDNS is part of ClearSky DDI

PowerDNS delivers carrier-grade, modular DNS for networks of any size. Its independent components—Authoritative Server, Recursor, and DNSDist—enable flexible scaling, fast patching, and precise tuning without cross-impact. Chosen for ClearSky DDI, PowerDNS is API-native, automation-friendly, and platform-agnostic, running seamlessly across hybrid, cloud, and on-prem environments with a proven track record in enterprise and ISP networks.

ThreatSTOP

Why ThreatSTOP is part of ClearSky DDI

ThreatSTOP enhances ClearSky DDI by adding real-time, automated DNS threat identification and protection. It detects malicious domains, botnets, and ransomware traffic at the DNS layer before connections are made. Integrated into ClearSky, ThreatSTOP transforms DNS into a proactive security control, providing continuous protection, simplified policy management, and rapid updates without requiring additional on-premise security appliances.

ISC    Kea

Why Kea is part of ClearSky DDI

ISC Kea is the modern, database-backed evolution of DHCP—modular, API-first, and built for automation, cloud, and high availability. Unlike legacy ISC DHCP, it’s actively developed and commercially supported. Its scalable, extensible design enables rapid failover, real-time lease updates, and seamless integration into ClearSky’s microservices-based middleware—delivering flexible, hardware-independent DHCP for hybrid and multi-region environments.

Netbox

Why Netbox is part of ClearSky DDI

NetBox serves as ClearSky’s authoritative IPAM database—open-source, vendor-neutral, and structured for clean, accurate network data. It manages IPs, subnets, VLANs, and devices without driving automation. ClearSky Middleware handles synchronization and orchestration, ensuring reliable data, consistent automation, and separation of duties for scalable, maintainable IP management across hybrid environments.

BlueCat    Infoblox    VitalQIP

Why BlueCat, Infoblox, and VitalQIP are part of ClearSky DDI

BlueCat, Infoblox, and VitalQIP are market-leading OEM platforms widely deployed by many of our Managed Services customers. By integrating with them through our abstraction layer, ClearSky delivers a seamless, unified user experience across diverse DDI environments.

This approach allows PCN to maintain consistent workflows, reporting, and automation regardless of the underlying vendor technology, ensuring operational efficiency, flexibility, and continuity in service delivery.

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What our Customers Say

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    “Your portal automation has reduced costs and allowed for self service. We rely on your architects and technical operations team and appreciate how knowledgeable and willing to help they are as they provide managed services for our BlueCat Network solution.”

    VP Infrastructure, Global Retailer

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    “ClearSky Portal has made administration of DDI easy and fool proof. We find it easy to use and have freed up internal staff for other activities. I am impressed with how quick and easy PCN’s team made the migration of our ddi services to ClearSky DDI. All of this, without the need for additional hardware and tools in our data center.”

    IT Infrastructure Manager, Technology Company

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    “We appreciate your service! It is reliable, and when things have come up you notify us quickly and support issue resolution before users are impacted.“

    Global Service Director, Pharmaceutical Company

Lower your operational costs, simplify, and transform your DDI management with our all-in-one ClearSky DDI solution.