Corporate Partners

Gambit's Corporate Partners are international, national and regional leaders in their business sectors, including enterprises, device vendors, management software developers and outsourcers. Our Corporate Partners are dedicated to the highest quality of network management technology and practices. They are looking to build or enhance their businesses through their IT infrastructure or solutions.

The following companies are Gambit's current Corporate Partners:

Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. Cisco products include routers, LAN and ATM switches, dial-up access servers and network management software. These products, integrated by the Cisco IOS software, link geographically dispersed LANs, WANs and IBM networks. Cisco Systems news and product/service information are available on the World Wide Web site at http://www.cisco.com. Cisco Systems is headquartered in San Jose, Calif.

Computer Associates International, Inc. (NYSE: CA), with headquarters in Islandia, N.Y., is the world leader in mission-critical business software. The company develops, licenses and supports more than 500 integrated products that include enterprise computing and information management, application development, manufacturing and financial applications. CA has over 11,000 people in 160 offices in 43 countries.

Unicenter TNG is an integrated enterprise management solution that enables organizations to manage all IT resources, encompassing heterogeneous networks, systems, applications, and databases. It provides comprehensive end-to-end enterprise management for TCP/IP, SNA, IPX/SPX and DECnet networks, and 40 platforms including desktops, Windows NT, UNIX, AS/400, NetWare and mainframe environments.

Fujitsu Siemens Computers, Fujitsu Siemens Computers is the leading European computer company. Serving the needs of large corporations, small- to medium-sized enterprises and consumers, the company operates in all key markets across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Novell, Inc. (Nasdaq: NOVL) delivers the best engineered, most interoperable Linux platform and a portfolio of integrated IT management software that helps customers around the world reduce cost, complexity and risk. With our infrastructure software and ecosystem of partnerships, Novell harmoniously integrates mixed IT environments, allowing people and technology to work as one. For more information, visit www.novell.com.

Hewlett-Packard Company is a leading global provider of computing, Internet and intranet solutions, services, communications products and measurement solutions, all of which are recognized for excellence in quality and support. HP has 127,200 employees and had revenue of $42.9 billion in its 1997 fiscal year.

HP is one of the world's largest providers of integrated network-, application-, storage-, security-, deployment- and service-management solutions. HP OpenView solutions are at work in more than 100,000 multivendor distributed computing environments worldwide. Together with offerings from more than 200 partners, HP OpenView offers a complete portfolio of services and management solutions on all major platforms.

IBM strives to lead in the creation, development and manufacture of the industry's most advanced information technologies, including computer systems, software, networking systems, storage devices and microelectronics. IBM translates these advanced technologies into value for its customers through their professional solutions and services businesses worldwide.

IBM Tivoli NetView
IBM Tivoli NetView serves as an umbrella application that provides a single point of control to maintain complex, multi-vendor, multi-platform networks and systems. NetView discovers TCP/IP networks, displays network topologies, correlates and manages events and SNMP traps, monitors network health, and gathers performance data to enable network engineers to manage the network more efficiently.

InterWorking Labs provides SilverCreek(R), the SNMP Test Suite, for software engineers to find and fix bugs in their SNMP agent implementations. With more than 1,500 tests available for SNMPv1, v2c, v3, and semantic tests for RMON1, RMON2, Traffic Generator, DOCSIS and the Printer MIB, InterWorking Labs has revolutionized the process of testing network products.

Castle Rock Computing Castle Rock Computing commenced operations in 1987. The SNMPc WorkGroup Manager, introduced in 1989, was the first available SNMP manager for Windows. This easy-to-use tool has proven very popular and there are currently over 100,000 installed worldwide. July 1998 saw the introduction of SNMPc Enterprise Manager. This product uses a scaleable distributed architecture and meets the demanding requirements for managing today's networks.
Castle Rock's mission is to continue developing products that meet market demand while not losing sight of the needs of existing customers.

SNMPc Overview

SNMPc is a secure distributed network management system that will monitor your entire network infrastructure regardless of vendor. It automatically discovers and polls SNMP v1, v2 and v3 devices, allows you to collect network statistics and automatically generates Trend Reports. The distributed polling architecture makes it easy to manage networks that span multiple sites. In the event of a network problem (device failure, high Utilization, low disk capacity) SNMPC will generate an email or pager alert. You can manage your network remotely with the Windows Client and JAVA WEB Consoles and export map topology, trend statistics and event log entries to other databases.

NOC Builder is a premier provider of network consulting and software solutions that enhance the efficiency and service capabilities of network operations centers. The NOC Builder organization is comprised of technical resources and experienced leaders with a background in successfully managing network availability and performance.

NOC Builder offers professional services addressing the full lifecycle of network operations center development from facility planning and systems design to staff augmentation and training. NOC Builder provides outsourcing and managed service solutions for companies looking to reduce operating costs, meet disaster recovery requirements, or focus on core business functions.

As a leader in the network support industry, NOC Builder provides targeted information about the trends and technologies in network operations, as well as customized training and certification programs for both the individual and network operations center.

Quallaby Corporation and Gambit share a common strength in their mutual focus on networking scalability. PROVISO performance monitoring software from Quallaby is architected expressly for very large and growing service provider networks and needs to demonstrate flexibility and multi-vendor support to its customers. MIMIC can streamline the test environment for PROVISO thereby enhancing reliability and validating performance numbers. The benefit to customers: improved rollout of performance monitoring in large, multi-vendor network environments.

Since 1999, NextComputing has provided companies with cutting edge mobile workstations, blade servers, and rugged portables. They are one of the first in a unique breed of technology companies to specialize in high-performance portable computing solutions with features capable of the most intensive applications. By taking advantage of developments in high-performance computing as they happen, NextComputing cater to industries that need quality computer services, small form factor, and highly portable equipment.

Siemens AG Siemens is a network encompassing more than 450,000 people in 190 countries. We take pride in possessing in-depth knowledge of customers' requirements and the expertise to create innovative solutions in electrical engineering and electronics. Our global network includes approximately 55,000 researchers and developers and our annual R&D investments in fiscal 2001 amounted to 5.6 billion euros. We at Siemens do not measure value solely in terms of short-term profitability. For us, it is just as important to be a respected corporate citizen in all the countries in which we operate. Ever since our company was founded 154 years ago, sustainability has been a top priority at Siemens. Our global network is a network of innovation - a network that draws on the best of many diverse cultures for the benefit of our customers, our inventors, our employees and our partners.

The primary business of SNMP Research International is creating, licensing, and supporting software for the management of networks, systems, applications, and legacy devices. Their objective is to help companies deploy standards-based management with shorter time-to-market, lower development costs, better fidelity to standards and interoperability, and less risk.

They provide innovative solutions for extensible agent, manager station, and mid-level manager implementations that are based on SNMPv1, SNMPv2, SNMPv3, HTTP/HTML, and other protocols. SNMP Research provides products and services worldwide to end-users, Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM), value-added resellers, and system integrators.

OpenNMS is the first enterprise-grade network management platform developed under the open-source model. For many environments, OpenNMS can provide all the necessary network monitoring, data collection and notification needs without the cost of a software license.

The OpenNMS Group, the maintainers of the OpenNMS project, also provide professional open-source services in the form of support, consulting, training and custom development. With decades of network management consulting expertise coupled with a robust, free application, The OpenNMS Group allows companies to focus on managing their business, not their network.

Open Management Consortium replaces monolithic vendor lock-in with a modular approach. Pick what you need, customize it to your exact specifications and add to it as your needs change. Because open source products welcome contributions by users, partners and other third parties, they must be standards-based. This standards-based approach facilitates interoperability between open source solutions across the systems management life cycle.

SixHat Technologies, Inc. Was founded in 2003 by a group of IT professionals focused on providing a wide range of IT solutions and services to any sized business. By combining a proven implementation system with innovative solutions and thoroughly tested products, our customers receive a well documented solution architected to meet their present and future needs. Our commitment to provide quality on-going service and support goes beyond what most service provider companies offer today. We consider our customers partners, and we take great interest in learning their business and how to improve it by providing new ideas and solutions.

ISR Global Telecom is the leading supplier of network and element management solutions and services to the worldwide telecommunications industry. ISR offers unique insight and expertise to telecom equipment suppliers, independent software vendors, and service providers who are developing and deploying next generation network infrastructures designed to support voice, data, and multimedia.

ISR's line of OSSnet Framework products utilizes MIMIC to simulate SNMP agents in all phases of their 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.

Red Hat Founded in 1993, Red Hat is the premier Linux and open source provider. Rated as CIO Insight Magazine's Most Valued Vendor for the second consecutive year, Red Hat maintains the highest value and reliability rankings among its customers, and is the most recognized Linux brand in the world. We serve global enterprises through technology and services made possible by the open source model. Solutions include Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating platforms, sold through a subscription model, and a broad range of services: consulting, 24x7 support, Red Hat Network. Red Hat's global training program operates in more than 60 locations worldwide and features RHCE, the global standard Linux certification.