Nashua,
NH – August 20, 2001 – Gambit Communications, a leading network
simulation tools provider, today announced the release of MIMIC™ Simulator
5.10. With the goal of constantly building upon and improving the management
simulation experience, MIMIC 5.10 offers expanded features and increased processing
speed, especially when simulating a large numbers of devices. It provides
an inexpensive way for enterprises to evaluate management applications and
policy scripts prior to deployment; to conduct and practice disaster preparedness
and recovery scenarios; to provide operator training; and to plan for future
infrastructure growth.
“With MIMIC 5.10, Gambit offers a comprehensive
management solution for network engineers in the enterprise environment,”
explained Pankaj Shah, Vice President of Marketing of Gambit Communications.
“Additional protocol support, such as Telnet, allows MIMIC to more fully simulate
real devices. Enterprises and service provides will now be able to conduct
more thorough evaluations. This will significantly increase their ROI, because
they will have more extensive and productive testing labs without the need
to buy and maintain additional network devices.”
MIMIC supports SNMPv1,
v2, v2c and v3, and DHCP, TFTP and ToD, which also provide Cable Modem Simulation
capabilities. Some of the new features in MIMIC 5.10 include:
·
Telnet
support for communicating through command line interfaces. This will provide
initial support for Cisco IOS®.
·
Performance
enhancement for large scalability testing.
·
Timer
scripts for individual agents for better control.
·
Perl
API, to support the popular test environment language.
·
Diagnostic
Wizard, which collects diagnostic information for problem reports.
·
Action
scripts on INFORM response and timeout, an important SNMPv3 feature.
MIMIC provides an inexpensive
way for enterprises, device vendors, management software developers and outsourcers
to demo, test, develop, train and certify management applications without
purchasing equipment and maintaining labs for those functions. MIMIC
has the ability to simulate up to 10,000 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), DHCP
and TFTP, as well as RMON(1, 2).
Founded
in 1995, Gambit Communications is a leader in network 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 150 customers includes: Computer
Associates, Hewlett Packard, MCI, Cisco, Nortel, Alcatel, Marconi, Lucent,
RiverSoft, BMC, InfoVista, and Ericsson. For more information on Gambit
and MIMIC, please visit www.gambitcommunications.com.
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MIMIC and Gambit Communications are trademarks of Gambit
Communications, Inc.
Contact: Daryle Lamoureux
Gambit Communications, Inc.
(603) 881-3500 x52