Released on: June 10, 2008, 12:29 pm

Press Release Author: Gambit Communications

Industry: Computers

Press Release Summary: Gambit Communications, a leading provider of network and SNMP
simulation tools, today announced the release of a new version of its MIMIC®
Simulator software featuring easier to create and faster simulations. The
simulations now have 50 to 400% faster
responses.


Press Release Body: Gambit Communications, a leading provider of network and SNMP
simulation tools, today announced the release of a new version of its MIMIC®
Simulator software featuring easier to create and faster simulations. The
simulations now have 50 to 400% faster responses.

MIMIC creates a virtual test lab with thousands of networking devices. Enterprise
network engineers
use it to record the production network and duplicate it in the test lab to do a
complete evaluation before purchase and testing before deployment of network
management applications.

Uwe Zimmermann President and CTO: "Users recognize the value MIMIC offers during
application evaluation and QA, including creation of disaster scenarios. This latest
release fully extends MIMIC's capabilities to Windows Server 2008 environments,
creates significantly faster recording and simulations, thereby enabling users to
create more scalable virtual networks."


"We needed to test our XMS software to verify the performance and scalability in
large Wi-Fi networks. Selecting MIMIC made it easier and cost effective for us to do
that,\" said Ali Fatollahi, Sr. QA Engineer at Xirrus. \"With MIMIC, it is as close as
you can get virtually to have a physical network with such a scale. We found MIMIC
saving us time and money so we purchased another license to double the capacity.\"

MIMIC 9.00 new features highlights include:

# Complete support for Windows Server 2008 - along with Windows Vista, XP and other
Windows, Solaris and Linux platforms, now you can also run MIMIC on the Windows
Server 2008 platform.

# MIMIC now includes a fast option to record networking devices. The simulated
devices respond much faster to management queries. The performance increase is at
least 50%. If there are more variables packed into a PDU, the difference in speed is
even faster, up to 4 times.

# HP Openview Network Node Manager and IBM Tivoli Netview recording tools - to
record the same network that those management applications see. This makes it easier
to duplicate the managed network.

# Better diagnosis of the query/response messages - full tracing is enabled to
better diagnose encrypted PDUs. This removes the need for the use of protocol
analyzers to diagnose the traffic.

# Support for the latest tools, Tcl 8.5.2 - improve the overall performance making
MIMIC more robust.

# Additional enhancements related to the performance.

# More pre-compiled MIBs in the MIB library including HP Procurve MIBs.

# More devices in the device library.


Availability
MIMIC Simulator 9.00 (SNMP, IOS, Cable Modem and IPMI) is available immediately from
Gambit.

About MIMIC

MIMIC provides an inexpensive way for enterprises, device vendors, management and
software developers
to evaluate, test, demo, develop, train and certify management applications without
purchasing equipment and maintaining labs for those functions. MIMIC has the ability
to simulate up to 20,000 devices from one workstation. MIMIC simulations can be
distributed over multiple platforms for enterprise simulation testing of even larger
environments. MIMIC includes user-friendly wizards for importing new MIBs,
recording large networks, creating device simulations and network topologies, and
provides full support for SNMP(v1, v2, v3), IPv6, IPMI, DHCP, TFTP, RMON(1, 2) as
well as Telnet/Cisco IOS.


About Gambit Communications, Inc.

Founded in 1995, Gambit Communications is a leader in network and SNMP simulation
tools that enhance the productivity of management software developers and enterprise
users while lowering their costs. MIMIC Simulator is a modular family of simulators
used by leading networking vendors for use in applications from development and
testing to operator training and disaster simulations. Gambit Communications'
portfolio of over 500 customers includes: JP Morgan, VISA, Shell, US Army, US Air
Force, IBM, HP, CA, Cisco, Intel, AT&T, MCI, Nortel, Alcatel, Marconi, Lucent, BMC,
InfoVista, and Ericsson. For more information on Gambit and MIMIC, please visit
www.gambitcommunications.com.



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