FOR RELEASE March 20, 2000

                                           Contact: Patricia Chrystycz
                                           Gambit Communications
                                           978-921-0492
                                           chrystycz@gambitcomm.com


Gambit's MIMIC Reduces Time to Market for E-business Management 
Applications


Nashua, NH - March 20, 2000 - With an eye to reducing time to market of E-
business management applications, Gambit Communications today introduced 
the industry's most scalable SNMP simulation tool, MIMIC(TM) SNMP Agent 
Simulator 4.20. MIMIC 4.20 allows developers of e-business management 
applications to design, develop, and test their applications in a virtual, scalable, 
network environment, assuring customers that their applications will work 
properly when deployed across the enterprise.

"In e-business application deployment, there is no room for guesswork," 
said John McConnell, President of McConnell Associates. "Software vendors are 
under tremendous pressure to deliver applications with superior performance 
immediately, there is precious time to get it right after the fact. Vendors using 
MIMIC during development and testing can assure clients that applications are 
scalable and ready for enterprise deployment. Many vendors have demonstrated 
that using MIMIC reduces their development costs as well as the time-to-market 
cycle."

MIMIC 4.20 new features include:
- Scalability for up to 5,000 SNMP agent simulations from a single platform
- Support for Sun Solaris on Intel platforms
- Support for the Microsoft Windows 2000 operating system

About MIMIC:
MIMIC provides an inexpensive way for enterprises, device vendors, 
management software developers, and outsourcers to demo, test, develop, train 
and certify SNMP-based management applications without purchasing 
equipment and maintaining labs for those functions. MIMIC has the ability to 
simulate up to 5000 SNMP-based devices from one workstation. MIMIC 
simulations can be distributed over multiple platforms for enterprise simulation 
testing of even larger environments. It 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, and v3 as well as 
RMON1 and RMON2. MIMIC,s customers include: CA, HP, MCI, Lucent, Xylan, 
GTE, Quallaby, Seagate, Fujitsu, Marconi, Nortel, and Ericson.

About Gambit:
Founded in 1995, Gambit Communications, Inc. is the leader in providing SNMP-
based network management tools that enhance the productivity of network 
management developers and enterprise users while lowering their costs.  
Gambit's SNMP agent simulation tool, MIMIC, records SNMP agents, then "plays 
back" simulations for use in applications from development and testing to 
operator training and disaster simulations. For more information on Gambit and 
MIMIC, please visit www.SNMPSimulation.com.

MIMIC and Gambit Communications are trademarks of Gambit Communications, Inc.
Other trademarks are owned by their respective companies.

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