Alvarion Ltd, Israel

Mark Alon, Alpha Department Manager, Research & Development

" Alvarion is dedicated to delivering seamless wireless broadband networking infrastructure to carriers, ISPs and private network operators, in order to leverage their broadband opportunities into sustainable profits.

When we started to tests our NMS (Network Management Software) we started to look for a SNMP agent simulator, which would provide us easily operation, support for a large amount of simulated devices, good performance, good technical support and many more.

The evaluation was done between several SNMP agent simulator providers and MIMIC from Gambit Communications, Inc was the winner with many spare points. Until today all our NMS tests and benchmarks are based on MIMIC agent simulator and I sincerely recommend trying and using this product. "

Quallaby Corporation

Bob Garvey, Director of Application Pack product management

"MIMIC is important to everything we do. It enables us to immediately incorporate support for many hardware devices, often while they're still in beta. Not only does MIMIC simulate the device, but it also simulates loads of traffic just like a busy, service provider network. The combination of MIMIC and PROVISO enables NSPs to rapidly roll out new services knowing that they have a tested and proven service assurance solution."

Avaya

Bob Shaw, Marketing Engineer

"With MIMIC simulating the hardware, the sales force can show Cajun View exactly as they would on a live network, Customers can see how Cajun View handles alarms, how easily devices are diagnosed and configured, and how the different switched network segments are monitored simultaneously. MIMIC is totally transparent to the sales force, so there's no additional training time involved."

Inteq

Jay Martin, Director of Network Infrastructure Engineering

"The Gambit Communications personnel consistently exhibit a can do attitude given our unique business model. Everyone from the sales team to the technical staff was able to understand our requirements and package a solution that has really worked quite well for us. They really took the time to understand our needs and go the extra mile.

Our business model is based on a one-to-many model, which means that we must be able to provide 24x7 visibility to hundreds of customers and thousands of objects from a few Monitoring Points-Of-Presence ^TM (M-POPs ^TM). MIMIC was the only way to test this level of scalability for our services without bringing in dozens and dozens of servers and network devices."

Stephen Elliot, E-Services Manager

"With MIMIC, InteQ's engineers are able to perform real-world simulations to test the performance, reliability, and look and feel of management services before they're put into production."

American Power Conversion

C. J. Meiser, Senior Product Manager

"Without MIMIC, it would have been extremely difficult and costly to make the level of scalability claims that we do."

Brad Hammond, Software Program Manager

"We looked at other simulators, but MIMIC was easier to use. It also supports Linux, which we use in our development environment. Basically, our biggest requirement was scalability, and MIMIC was the only product on the market that fit the bill."

Marconi

Frank Radish, Network Management Test

"We have been using MIMIC^® SNMP Agent Simulator to verify that our ForeView® Network Management solution can handle extremely large ATM networks.

With MIMIC we can simulate hundreds of ATM switches linked together via thousands of ATM links. Besides allowing us to simulate very large networks, MIMIC also makes it very easy to create specific "canned" scenarios for regression testing.

MIMIC complements our testing methodologies very well, permitting us to execute some tests which would be impractical using hardware, and allowing us to test against simulated hardware before we can get it from manufacturing."

Hewlett-Packard Company

Kelly Smith, OVBU R&D, Software Infrastructure Services Lab

"MIMIC has proven to be an extremely useful solution for testing HP/Openview. For example, we use MIMIC for regression and integration testing. By using MIMIC, we can create controlled test environments that won't change, which is not feasible in a physical test environment. We also use MIMIC for scalability testing. MIMIC has allowed us to add not only a large number of devices to our testing environment, but also to add rare devices that are not easily accessible.

MIMIC has saved us both time and money, and it has greatly improved our testing abilities. "

Bruce Trull, Engineering Manager

"We have significantly improved our software development execution with MIMIC SNMP Agent Simulator.

Engineers now have the ability to design/develop/unit-test products against agents defined in MIMIC, rather than incurring the cost associated with allocating a dedicated hardware device per development engineer.

It also alleviates the serial dependencies by allowing software development to progress concurrently with hardware development."

InfoVista

EDS

David Sleigher, Systems Administrator

"MIMIC^® made my job easier by not having to carry a SAP/R3 Server for demonstrations of CA-Unicenter software. MIMIC saved us the $ 10,000 price of of the alternative solution in hardware/ software. We can do demos faster and make quicker sales."

Alcatel

Patrick Kirby, Director, NMS Development

"XYLAN Corporation is using MIMIC^® SNMP Agent Simulator for simulating XYLAN devices for development and testing of the X-Vision network management software.

As part of a Sales/Demo program, the MIMIC simulation engine will drive our Network Management Application demo CD. This will enable our Sales organization to show our customers the ease of use of our management applications without the expense of having to hook up the actual devices."

Mark Truhlar, Vice President, General Manager of IP Telephony

"MIMIC has saved Xylan over $500,000 in expenses related to software development. It is one of the few development products that we can depend on to keep pace with our development needs -- the fact that they're already supporting SNMP V3 speaks for itself. And as a former CIO, I would not hesitate to use this simulation tool in a large enterprise environment, not only for the cost savings but also the ability to perform applications like disaster recovery simulation which would be almost impossible without a tool like this."

Fujitsu Software Corporation

Ray Holland, Director of Engineering

"We have been using MIMIC for more than a year for development and testing of our product, NetPrism. MIMIC has not only saved us equipment capital cost but also development time. MIMIC has helped us reach our aggressive milestones for releasing NetPrism. We are very excited about using it at trade shows for demonstration of our products. Our customers demos are very powerful combining both real hardware and the MIMIC Virtual Lab."

ISR Global Telecom

Ed Draiss, Sales Applications Engineer

"MIMIC is used to simulate agents in all phases of our OSSnet network management software development life cycle. It has been used for rapid prototyping, development and test of the ISR OSSnet Application Framework. OSSnet Application Framework provides out-of-the-box management of telecom equipment using JAVA based GUIs over a CORBA backbone.

MIMIC has provided simulation of network equipment to verify that the OSSnet Application Framework will effectively manage disparate technologies such as ATM, AIN, Wireless, WDM and SONET.

MIMIC has proven to be a very user friendly tool which is supported by a Gambit staff who are very knowledgeable and helpful.

MIMIC is also used at the trade shows attended by ISR Global Telecom. The simulated MIMIC SNMP agents provide the capability of demonstrating the OSSnet Application Frameworks management of SNMP agents."

Applied Innovation, Inc.

Sherri Whisman, Manager, Verification Test

"Through the use of the MIMIC SNMP Agent Simulator we significantly reduced our performance load testing time. We were able to simulate 250 of our proprietary SNMP agents with a single network connection.

We are very impressed with the response from the support staff at Gambit. It took us approximately one hour to have a test scenario configured and running to test our application."

Bigtime Software

John Weber, Network Management Consultant

"MIMIC SNMP Agent Simulator has been indispensable in assisting with the development of management software in advance of new hardware devices.

By testing against models of devices still under development, we were much further ahead with the software implementation when the actual devices became available.

MIMIC also presents a more cost effective solution for developers who require exclusive access to a wide range of devices when debugging."

Computer Associates, Belgium

Raymond Peeters, Marketing Manager

"Creating networks to properly demonstrate the capabilities of these advanced software tools is an expensive proposition. MIMIC allows us to demonstrate our software with minimal hardware and lab overhead expense - allowing us to show how Computer Associates tools manage the Ebackbone at Espeed."

Carl Hartman, VP of development partner programs

"By integrating its SNMP Agent Simulator with the inherent management capabilities of Unicenter TNG®, our clients will enjoy a tremendously powerful combination of management functions for SNMP-based applications.

This useful capability enables Unicenter TNG clients to evaluate applications before purchase, and test current and future network scenarios without compromising the stability of their existing networks."

InterWorking Labs

Chris Wellens, President and CEO

“Gambit’s MIMIC product used with SilverCreek, the SNMP Test Suite, provides an expanded test environment for our customers to easily and conveniently run tests against more SNMP agents. We feel this will be a valuable addition to their test infrastructure.”

The Denver Cisco Users Group

Mike Vinton, Chairman

" An IOS simulator will be beneficial to both training providers and network engineers. A simulation tool, such as MIMIC IOS Simulator, can significantly strengthen Cisco certification and router training programs. In addition, students will find it effective as a self-study tool for learning about Cisco device management. "

Terayon Communication Systems Ltd.

Eli Greenhut, SQA Manager

"We have been using MIMIC for a few years for testing Terayon's management systems.

We could not have fully covered all Test Cases and all configurations without the use of MIMIC. MIMIC makes the testing process shorter and efficient for the QA team as well as the developers who are using the simulations during development and Integration Testing."

T-Soft, Israel

Oleg Kaplan, VP Operation

"MIMIC simulator is positioned in the core of our development process. It is a very effective tool in the R&D department of OSS software vendors like T-Soft.

There is no doubt that the use of MIMIC significantly simplifies the cycle of adding new vendors/technology support to our product portfolio. "