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| September 22, 2026 |
Rehearse a Data Center Crisis Against 10,000 Simulated Devices
Most of what goes wrong in a new facility is not the building. It is the network and the tools watching it: the detection rule that never fires, the monitoring system that drowns in its first alarm storm, the configuration push that stalls at device four thousand. |
| August 18, 2026 |
From Empty Canvas to 10,000 Simulated Devices in Minutes
A network simulation worth testing against is more than just fifty devices in a row. It should reflect your production network, usually consisting of a core, a distribution layer, an access layer and the end systems hanging off it. |
| July 23, 2026 |
Operate MIMIC Simulator in Plain English with Claude Code Skills
With the new MIMIC Skills for Claude Code, you state your intent in natural language (English, or any other) ... Claude translates it into the right MIMIC API calls, runs them, and shows you exactly what it did. |
| November 3, 2025 |
MIMIC Simulator: Exercise threat detection in ElastiFlow
When you combine the two tools, you get a controlled lab environment in which you can simulate threat-scenarios via MIMIC, and then ensure that your NetObserv setup detects them. |
| October 1, 2025 |
Customize Zabbix with MIMIC Simulator
If you have a lab to test Zabbix prior to deployment, you can use MIMIC Simulator not just for monitoring, but also any operational customizations you've made (like triggers, escalations, actions, scripts, dashboards, etc.) without touching the production network. |
| September 10, 2025 |
How a Simulator Like MIMIC Simulator Helps nGenius Customers
Netscout nGenius is a service assurance and performance management platform. MIMIC Simulator Suite virtualizes large network environments to help tackle some of these problems. |
| August 5, 2025 |
MIMIC Simulator and LiveNX
LiveNX customers can benefit from MIMIC Simulator to complement their in- house lab at a fraction of the cost of real equipment. |
| June 2, 2025 |
MIMIC Simulator and Dynatrace
In our quest to support all possible network management platforms, we have interoperated with Dynatrace by discovering large networks. |
| October 18, 2024 |
MIMIC NetFlow Simulator: Datadog tracking conversations
After about 2 minute, 10 agents generated 63 call flows. Each flow can be inspected in the pie chart of Datadog. |
| September 12, 2024 |
MIMIC NetFlow Simulator: visualize network traffic with ElastiFlow
Changing flow traffic dynamically in MIMIC, then see it reflected in ElastiFlow. |
| March 27, 2024 |
MIMIC Simulator: Interface Utilization Graph on Prometheus
Deterministically change the rates of 64-bit monitored MIB objects, see the utilization change in Prometheus application via Grafana. |
| January 4, 2024 |
MIMIC NetFlow Simulator: Generate VOIP spike in Noction
Change NetFlow flowsets dynamically to generate graph changes in Noction. |
| November 27, 2023 |
MIMIC AI Assistant
AI Assistant lets you get answers quickly. |
| July 18, 2023 |
MIMIC MQTT Lab: Sparkplug B telemetry in Ignition in 3 minutes
Dynamic, custom Sparkplug B telemetry to Ignition. |
| June 6, 2023 |
MIMIC MQTT Simulator: test MQTT5 support in Azure Event Grid
First see that flickering light telemetry is sent in MQTT 3.1.1. Then change to MQTT 5, see CONNACK properties, and that it is still published. |
| May 31, 2023 |
 Setting Up IoT DevOps for Success with Advanced Simulation
"This openness and flexibility combined with the MIMIC Simulator’s speed and determinism can make DevOps QA and regression testing a reality for mission-critical engineering teams. And, in addition to enabling iterative updates and reducing development time, technical organizations are leveraging the platform for everything from technical training and sales demonstrations to pre-hardware modeling of IoT devices." |
| December 1, 2022 |
MIMIC MQTT Lab: Test MQTT 5 support on AWS IoT Core
AWS recently announced MQTT 5 support for AWS IoT. We tested it in less than 5 minutes with MIMIC MQTT Lab AWS. |
| November 18, 2022 |
Migrating from shuttered IBM Watson IoT platform
With the recent announcements of the shuttering of the Google IoT Core and IBM Watson IoT platforms, we can suggest that MIMIC IoT Simulator can be used to help migrate from the obsolete IoT platforms to a new offering. |
| September 13, 2022 |
MIMIC SNMP Simulator and neteXpose DNA
In this integration, netExpose DNA discovered the chassis details of a simulated Alcatel switch, allowing them to test their management application with all sorts of device scenarios. |
| August 26, 2022 |
Migrating to Google IoT Core alternatives
MIMIC MQTT Simulator allows you to simulate a large number of your assets that connect to Google IoT Core, then migrate them to the alternative of your choice. |
| November 9, 2021 |
Live, dynamic, immediate, 24/7, interactive Ubidots demo
The demo shows asset tracking features for a fleet of vehicles: real-time telemetry updates the location on the map. |
| November 8, 2021 |
 Year-end promotion
From now until December 31, 2021 with the purchase of a MIMIC MQTT Simulator get 25% off the IWL MQTT Test Suite or vice versa. Two great companies have come together to offer a great deal on a complete MQTT testing and development solution, to accelerate your product development. Contact us for more details. |
| July 15, 2021 |
Self-service online MQTT Lab up to 10,000 sensors available on AWS Marketplace
We have recently added a 10k size for our online, self-service MQTT labs on the AWS Marketplace, designed for development, testing, proof-of-concept, training of large IoT applications. |
| April 17, 2021 |
 MIMIC MQTT Lab now on Schneider Electric Exchange
You can now rent the most popular MIMIC MQTT Lab editions on the Schneider Electric Exchange. |
| June 1, 2020 |
 MIMIC MQTT Lab Sparkplug now on Eclipse Marketplace
MIMIC MQTT Lab Sparkplug to test Sparkplug deployments available on Eclipse Marketplace. |
| May 21, 2020 |
Avoid IoT Project Failure with Better Simulators
Proper network simulation is essential to a successful scale-up. Rather than attempting to simulate physical hardware, Gambit simulates the traffic that IoT devices generate when they communicate across the network. When end users can model their network and sensors, they can determine resource requirements before deploying a single device. |
| April 6, 2020 |
 MIMIC MQTT Lab now on AWS Marketplace
MIMIC MQTT Lab provides affordable, custom, rapid-deployment IoT Simulator labs on the AWS Marketplace. |
| March 16, 2020 |
 Statistical Flow Classification for the IoT - Gennaro Cirillo
MIMIC Simulator is able to create several virtual sensors capable of generating MQTT traffic, to test a system configuration before deployment. ... The payload can be generated dynamically, while the time interval can be specified directly, together with the topic. We used different configuration files, to try to make the network as diverse as possible. |
| January 13, 2020 |
WebNMS Simulation Toolkit: End of Life
WebNMS has announced end-of-life for the WebNMS Simulation Toolkit as detailed on their site as of December 31, 2019. |
| October 30, 2019 |
MIMIC MQTT Simulator integrates with Alibaba IoT Platform
We have added MIMIC MQTT Simulator integration with the Alibaba IoT Platform for getting started, evaluation, development, testing and proof- of-concept on this platform. |
| August 19, 2019 |
IoT Simulation: The Test for Success
60% of IoT projects fail at the proof-of-concept stage. ... As the number of sensors in the network increases, so does the chance of encountering an unexpected event. ... MIMIC supports dynamic rules that can adjust a simulation and introduce new parameters in mid-run. |
| June 3, 2019 |
MIMIC MQTT Simulator driving a IoT demo at Cisco Live
You will see a cruise ship with dynamic, real-time cabin temperature and door lock sensors simulated by MIMIC MQTT Simulator. |
| January 3, 2019 |
400,000 MQTT connections to IBM MessageSight for real-time performance testing
We have achieved 400,000 simultaneous connections on the newly released MessageSight 5. |
| October 15, 2018 |
 Realtime Telemetry Simulation with PubNub
Using MIMIC, PubNub users can assure their customers that they will be able to handle the scales of connections, topics, and varieties of messages to work properly when deployed across heterogeneous environments. |
| July 1, 2018 |
 MIMIC MQTT Simulator now on Samsung Artik Marketplace
As part of our partnership with Samsung Artik, we are happy to announce our inclusion on the Samsung Artik Marketplace. |
| June 27, 2018 |
Virtual IoT Simulator Lab for Thingworx
In our quest for MIMIC MQTT Simulator to interoperate with a wide variety of Internet of Things platforms and applications we have completed a scenario where simulated sensors are feeding real-time, precisely controllable telemetry via MQTT to PTC's Thingworx Industrial Connectivity. |
| May 24, 2018 |
MIMIC MQTT Simulator supports Sparkplug IoT standard
We have applied the open source Sparkplug library to simulated sensors in MIMIC to integrate a large number of things into Ignition. |
| May 4, 2018 |  Graphical Networks make netTerrain more powerful using MIMIC Simulator
“MIMIC provides flexibility in simulation and ability to recreate networks without investing in hardware, saving time and money.” Jason Sherman, Sales Engineering Manager |
| March 5, 2018 |  Report: A Guidance Framework for Testing IoT Solutions -- By Sean Kenefick
"... An IoT solution may be made up of hundreds or thousands of devices. To test all of the devices in their real environments may be prohibitively expensive or dangerous. However, you also need to ensure that your IoT platform and back-end systems can handle the load of all of those devices and correctly send and receive data as necessary." |
| January 12, 2018 |  Thesis by Gennaro Cirillo Comparison of using traditional protocols and IoT protocols. Gennaro used MIMIC MQTT Simulator for IoT sensors. He captured MIMIC generated MQTT packets and analyzed using various packages |
| December 19, 2017 |  Creating a Scalable IoT Environment Realistic testing of the application against the simulation early on significantly reduces problems. |
| December 8, 2017 |
Solarwinds and MIMIC Simulator
If you need to develop and test customizations, or train staff on the Solarwinds management application, then you can create a facsimile of your production network in MIMIC Simulator and reproduce interesting scenarios. |
| November 9, 2017 |
Online MQTT Lab for your access
We have just released a SaaS lab with hundreds/thousands of simulated MQTT sensors to prototype/test your IoT solution at mqttlab.iotsim.io. |
| October 2, 2017 |
MIMIC MQTT Simulator integrates with Google IoT Core
While integrating simulated Bosch sensors in MIMIC MQTT Simulator with Google IoT Core we implemented JSON Web Tokens (JWT) for the MQTT Password, as standardized in RFC 7519. |
| July 25, 2017 |
MIMIC interoperates with Cumulocity IoT Platform
You can use MIMIC to quickly create any set of measurements, events and alarms for a large number of IoT devices to test your real-time application on Cumulocity. |
| July 17, 2017 | Deploy Scalable Smart City Architectures Confidently With Network Simulation Anomaly detection is particularly useful as the MIMIC IoT Simulator allows developers to instantaneously scale the number of devices on a network and condense operations that would normally take place over months into a single test session. |
| July 11, 2017 |
MIMIC Redfish Simulator to simulate large server farm
The DMTF Redfish Mockup may be adequate to simulate a small number of servers to be managed with the Redfish API but now you can use MIMIC Redfish Simulator to simulate Redfish on a large scale. |
| November 18, 2016 |
Dell/EMC performs complete testing using MIMIC Simulator
EMC has multiple copies of MIMIC Simulator. There is a team of 60 engineers using MIMIC for scalability, performance, feature and regression testing. |
| July 6, 2016 |
MQTT Simulator enables large-scale Azure IoT testing
We have recently simulated many sensors with MIMIC MQTT Simulator publishing arbitrary messages to a subscriber client connected to Azure IoT Hub as a proof of concept of large-scale testing of IoT application deployment using this platform. |
| May 17, 2016 |
MIMIC MQTT Simulator for rapid prototyping of Amazon AWS IoT applications
MIMIC allows rapid prototyping of many publishers with custom payloads and custom message rates. By simulating thousands of such sensors you can benchmark your performance with AWS IoT. |
| April 26, 2016 |  Creating a Scalable MQTT Environment MIMIC Simulator can help create a virtual IoT Smart City. |
| February 1, 2016 |
MIMIC MQTT Simulator interoperates with IBM MessageSight
In a little over 10 minutes we start 20,000 simulated sensors connecting to the IBM MessageSight MQTT Broker. |
| January 4, 2016 |
MIMIC Simulator simulates Internet of Things
MIMIC MQTT Simulator supports simulating up to 100k (yes, 100000) sensors from one host. You can generate any message for any sensor type with any frequency to test your brokers and subscribers. |
| November 12, 2015 |  Lancope/Cisco "Lancope leverages MIMIC NetFlow Simulator for StealthWatch System testing, demonstrations and training.`"
" MIMIC is an excellent resource for us. It helps ensure that the StealthWatch System is thoroughly tested against the most commonly used NetFlow-capable networking devices. ", Byron Turner, Director of QA |
| June 30, 2015 |  International CSR Excellence Award Gambit Communications Wins International CSR Excellence Award 2015 |
| June 23, 2015 |  Seceon "MIMIC NetFlow Simulator helps Seceon Develop Innovative Data Center/Cloud Security Solution"
" MIMIC has been a tremendous help in aiding us to simulate different kinds of data center traffic with thousands of Hosts, tens of Switches and Routers. It provided a large lab environment which was otherwise impossible for us to build. ", Chandra S. Pandey, Founder and CEO |
| May 28, 2015 |
Cisco Prime Infrastructure discovers simulated devices in MIMIC
We have tested MIMIC Simulator to interoperate with Cisco Prime Infrastructure. |
| March 26, 2015 |  VistaraIT "MIMIC SNMP and Telnet/SSH Simulator provides enterprise grade networks for Vistara "
" MIMIC has been a huge value for us in multiple ways. Our engineers use MIMIC to test and demo nstrate Vistara against a broad range of SNMP devices using very little hardware. This gives us a significant cost savings. ", Mahesh Ramachandran, Sr. Director of Product Management |
| January 5, 2015 |
MIMIC Simulator and Riverbed SteelCentral NetCollector
Check out our usual 1000-node network created with MIMIC SNMP Simulator, and discovered and displayed by Riverbed SteelCentral NetCollector. |
| November 14, 2014 |
EMC SMARTS discovers 10000+ phones simulated by MIMIC
EMC SMARTS management application took 5 minutes to discover MIMIC Simulator simulation of a Cisco Hosted Collaboration Solution server with 10,000+ VOIP phones. |
| June 30, 2014 |  International CSR Excellence Award Gambit Communications Wins International CSR Excellence Award |
| June 25, 2014 |
OpenNMS discovers 500 simulated devices
MIMIC SNMP Simulator simulates 500 devices, and we discover them with OpenNMS on a 4-CPU virtual machine with 12GB RAM. With MIMIC, you can easily test scalability of your NMS deployment. |
| May 7, 2014 |
Free SNMP Simulator
Gambit is happy to provide you a free copy of our enterprise class MIMIC SNMP Simulator Single license. You will be able to simulate one SNMP agent with all the features of the full version of MIMIC. |
| May 6, 2014 |  Cisco "Cisco benefits from MIMIC Web and SNMP Simulator for testing Cisco Hosted Collaboration Solutions (HCS)"
" Working with our new HCS Solution, we have been counting on Gambit to deliver us a simulated solution. Gambit provided exceptional support. ", Michael Lammon, Software Engineer - HCBU, Cisco |
| April 28, 2014 |  NetworkWorld Network World's New Product of the Week: Gambit Communications' MIMIC Simulator Suite |
| April 24, 2014 |
MIMIC Simulator 14.00 released
We are happy to announce the immediate availability of MIMIC Simulator Suite 14.00. |
| October 24, 2013 |  Pepco "MIMIC Simulator helps Pepco identifying and preparing for crisis situations"
" MIMIC Simulator is a powerful tool that is easy to use. Because it has the ability to capture all the different SNMP versions, it minimizes the number of devices that need to be purchased saving money and lab space. ", Albert Jennings, NOC Engineer, Pepco |
| August 21, 2013 |
MIMIC SNMP Simulator and HP NNMi
This shows a small simulated network of 250 SNMP agents simulated with MIMIC SNMP Simulator discovered by HP Network Node Manager. |
| July 29, 2013 |
Large networks with IBM Tivoli Network Manager
We have recently simulated increasingly large networks with MIMIC SNMP Simulator and discovered them with IBM Tivoli Network Manager. |
| May 13, 2013 |  Device42 "MIMIC Simulator has made device42's complex and rigorous testing process much easier"
" It has saved thousands of dollars in hardware expenses and significant amount of time in QA and customer support. ", Raj Jalan, Founder and Chief Architect, device42 llc |
| April 9, 2013 |
Tech 2000 Delivers 1000+ Online CCNA Training Pods using MIMIC Virtual Lab
Tech 2000, a leading provider of highest quality training, announced that it is using Gambit Communications' MIMIC® Virtual Lab Cloud product to provide Cisco CCNA® training to employees of a large telecom company... |
| October 26, 2012 |  Green Apple Award Gambit Communications receives International Green Apple Award - Fifth year in a row. |
| August 10, 2012 |
MIMIC simulates 5000 devices managed by EMC Smarts
This post demonstrates how EMC Smarts discovered a large network simulated by MIMIC SNMP Simulator. This was a hand created network by Gambit's engineers in MIMIC which took about 10 minutes to add and start. |
| April 3, 2012 |
New MIMIC SNMP Simulator version 12.00
FYI, we are announcing immediate availability of MIMIC 12.00 with these new features: - sFlow Simulator in addition to Netflow and IPFIX - customize simulations without programming - load agent configurations incrementally |
| November 29, 2011 |  Green Apple Award Gambit Communications receives International Green Apple Award - Fourth year in a row. |
| June 08, 2011 | World IPv6 Day On World IPv6 day Major organisations will offer their content over IPv6 for a 24-hour "test flight".
In support of this effort, MIMIC SNMP Simulator provides network operators
with large-scale IPv6 network environment simulations to test
network management of IPv6 assets. MIMIC NetFlow Simulator generates
IPv6 flows to verify flow monitoring. MIMIC IOS Simulator and Virtual
Lab products allow for training on IPv6 Cisco configurations. |
| May 26, 2011 |
MIMIC SNMP Simulator at Tokyo Interop
You will see how the latest version MIMIC Simulator is working with management applications. You will also get to see MIMIC Netflow Simulator in action. |
| March 29, 2011 |  Fed Tech Services. "MIMIC Simulator helps Fed Tech to provide Network Management Solutions to Federal Customers "
" MIMIC Simulator provides the network environment that is utilized by FTS to engineer holistic solutions that exceed customer standards and expectations while remaining under budget and on time ", Jason Pulfer, VP Service Delivery, FedTech Services, Inc. |
| Feb 01, 2011 |  Internet Telephony Magazine "Company Expands Simulated Lab to Cloud, Mobiles "
" You wouldn't invest in a Cadillac to teach an inexperienced driver the rules of the road. Instead, at least in my day, Driver's Ed teachers used simulators to get their students acclimated to being behind the wheel. ", Paula Bernier, Executive Editor, IP Communications Magazines |
| January, 2011 |  Gambit unveils new network management simulation tool The updated MIMIC has a new service, NetFlow Simulator, for complete evaluation and troubleshooting of flow monitoring, management and analysis applications. ... |
| December 14, 2010 |
Kaplan IT / Transcender recommends MIMIC Virtual Lab Cloud
Did you know that Kaplan IT / Transcender is using IOS simulation provided by MIMIC Virtual Lab Cloud from Gambit Communications for its CCNA practice courses? |
| November, 2010 |  SiliconIndia si100 Gambit Communications is selected and honored in Top 10 Networking Companies in si100 list - Foruth time.
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| November 30, 2010 |  Green Apple Award Gambit Communications receives International Green Apple Award - Third year in a row. |
| October 8, 2010 |  PCWorld "iCCNAlabVersion: 5.30 (iOS 4.0 Tested)"
"iCCNAlab is an on-line lab accessible over the Internet. It consists of a hosted cloud of CCNA lab pods. Within seconds you can connect to a pod to practice Cisco IOS commands on various Cisco Routers and Switches." |
| June 7, 2010 |  Mibtree Casestudy: Mibtree provides training for multiple Network Management Applications using MIMIC Simulator Suite Tony Barratt, Training Consultant at Mibtree: "MIMIC allows us to simulate multiple network configuration quickly and easily. " |
| March 4, 2010 |
Gambit Releases New Version 10.20 of MIMIC SNMP Simulator
MIMIC SNMP Simulator 10.20's new features include: * Significant performance boost on multi-CPU systems. * Server Simulator now also supports IPv6; Additionally it allows communications from IPv4 to IPv6 and vice versa. |
| February, 2010 | IndUS Business Journal "Going Green" by Martin Desmarais.
"Gambit Communications Inc. is a company that scores with its customers on its cost-savings, but the green awareness quotient does continue to rise." |
| January 15, 2010 |
Watch4net uses MIMIC Simulator
Watch4net, one of leading providers of service assurance software, announced that it is using Gambit Communications' MIMIC® Simulator to simplify the cycle of adding new vendors/technology support to its Watch4net APG Software Suite portfolio. |
| December 1, 2009 |  SiliconIndia Gambit Communications bags International Green Apple Award
"Gambit have created a software solution to a hardware problem, creating impressive savings in costs, power and materials. .." |
| November, 2009 |  SiliconIndia si100 Gambit Communications is selected and honored in Top 10 Networking Companies in si100 list - Third time.
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| November 30, 2009 |  Green Apple Award Gambit Communications receives International Green Apple Award - GOLD Winner - Second year in a row. |
| June 8, 2009 |
MIMIC JUNOS Simulator
MIMIC Simulator Suite has added a JUNOS Simulator in addition to its SNMP Simulator, IOS Simulator, IPMI Simulator, Cable Modem Simulator and Wireless Simulator. |
| May 28, 2009 |
MIMIC Simulator for WiMax and LTE
MIMIC SNMP Simulator allows wireless equipment manufacturers to create a virtual lab with thousands of 3G or 4G Wireless (WiMAX, Wi-Fi, LTE) devices and related infrastructure. |
| May 20, 2009 |
Kaplan IT CCNA Simulator
Gambit has released another CCNA lab based on the MIMIC Virtual Lab platform. The Kaplan IT CCNA Simulator is available from SelfTest Software or Transcender. |
| May 6, 2009 |  Franklin University "MIMIC Virtual Lab is helping us to achieve the educational outcomes we have set
for the IT program. " Todd A. Whittaker, Program Chair, Information Technology Case Study: "Franklin wants its students to apply on the job tomorrow the skills learned in class today and MIMIC Virtual Lab helps us to bridge the gap between theory and practice. " |
| January 7, 2009 |  Nashua Telegraph Nashua firm wins environmental award.
"Gambit received the award in recognition of its MIMIC Simulator, a product that simulates devices such as routers in a computer data center, reducing the amount of equipment needed to run the center. That translates to lower electricity use, carbon emissions and costs." |
| December 1, 2008 | IndUS Business Journal NH's Gambit wins award for environmental efforts. |
| November 19, 2008 | SiliconIndia Gambit Communications bags International Green Apple Award.
"...there were 500 nominations this year. Past winners include Public Service Company of New Hampshire and Jaguar Cars." |
| November 10, 2008 |  Green Apple Award Gambit Communications receives International Green Apple Award - GOLD Winner |
| November, 2008 |  SiliconIndia si100 Gambit Communications is selected and honored in Top 10 Networking Companies in si100 list.
"si100 is an annual listing of the top 100 technology companies founded and managed by Indians in the U.S. The si100 not only represents the continuing rise and glory of Indian entrepreneurship in high-tech but also recognizes companies impacting the market place. |
| October 20, 2008 |  FireScope "MIMIC Simulator helps testing of Business Service Management Products " - Case Study by Ryan Counts, Marketing Director, FireScope, Inc.
"Gambit's MIMIC allows FireScope to exercise the BSM Solution thoroughly to make sure that all real-world environments and conditions are tested. MIMIC gives more control over the test environment and makes testing a lot more efficient. It enhances their ROI many folds by simulating a real world network in their lab, capable of duplicating the required conditions at a fraction of the cost and effort. " |
| October 17, 2008 |
MIMIC Simulator supports Python API
This will allow control of SNMP simulations through Python scripting, in addition to the existing Tcl, Perl, Java and C++ language interfaces. |
| September 29, 2008 |  Networks Inc. Ltd. "Gambit's MIMIC Virtual Lab simplifies CCNA home study course "
"MIMIC Virtual Lab has really helped my students to get hands on time with Cisco devices without the expense of buying equipment. For those who do have access to live routers and switches, the MIMIC Virtual Lab gives an extra boost and a convenient way to do labs. ", Paul Browning, Founder of Networks Inc and author of CCNA simplified. |
| September 15, 2008 |  Express Computer Hot this Week: Gambit MIMIC Simulator |
| September 8, 2008 | NetworkWorld Network World's Product of the Week: Gambit Communications MIMIC Virtual Lab CCNA 3.42 |
| September 5, 2008 |
Gambit Releases Virtual Lab for Cisco ICND2
Gambit Communications, a leading provider of network simulation tools, today announced the general availability of MIMIC® Virtual Lab CCNA version 3.42. |
| July 31, 2008 | NetworkWorld "Cisco simulator can help thwart exam cheating " by Jim Duffy
"... MIMIC Virtual Lab software can help resolve the cheating on Cisco certification tests. " |
| March 10, 2008 |  Xirrus "Gambit's MIMIC Enables Xirrus for Superior Testing " - Case Study
"MIMIC is a great product (ease of use and phenomenal tech support) and has saved us time and money", Ali Fatollahi, Sr. QA Engineer |
| March 1, 2008 | NetworkWorld Cisco Subnet "ACCESS TO TECH 2000'S CCNA LAB SIMULATOR "
"Developed in conjunction with Gambit Communications, Tech 2000's CCNA Lab Simulator is the first based on Cisco authorized CCNA certification track. " |
| December 28, 2007 |  Network Computing Magazine "Gambit to Scale India Operations " by Sonal Desai
"Gambit Communications, one of the providers in network and SNMP simulation tools that enhance the productivity of management software developers and enterprise users is scaling up India presence. ..." |
| December, 2007 | COMPANY OF THE MONTH How to MIMIC your complex Network
"MIMIC Simulator, an innovation by Gambit Communications offers a virtual lab environment for enterprises and cuts down the time and money for testing. .." |
| November, 2007 |  SiliconIndia si100 Gambit Communications makes it in to si100.
"si100 is an annual listing of the top 100 technology companies founded and managed by Indians in the U.S. The si100 not only represents the continuing rise and glory of Indian entrepreneurship in high-tech but also recognizes companies impacting the market place. |
| November 12, 2007 | Express Computer "Network Simulation " by Kushal Shah, Express Computer
"Growing network loads are leading to crashes which, in turn, are compelling organizations to resort to network simulation before going live. " |
| July, 2007 |  HP Openview Education & Training MIMIC Based Advanced Course - HP Network Node Manager Software II
"The Extended Topology deployment section includes labs using an SNMP simulation package (MIMIC), which allows the product to be run in a live environment to simulate common problems that can occur during deployment and how to troubleshoot them. ..." |
| May, 2007 |  Go Networks "MIMIC helps testing of Wi-Fi NMS " by Gabby Tal, NMS Project Manager, Go Networks
"Review a case study of Go Networks, a cellular Wi-Fi devices and management applications provider, using MIMIC Simulator to simulate Wi-Fi devices for testing scalability and faulty conditions. " |
| September 1, 2006 |  TMWorld "Software tests network software" by Martin Rowe, Senior Technical Editor, Test & Measurement World
"Engineers at Adtran, a maker of DSL equipment, must test new features in the company's system-management software while making sure the existing features still work. " |
| May 1, 2006 |  Well-Connected Awards 2006 Winner: Gambit Communications MIMIC Virtual Lab CCNA 1.5 Network Infrastructure category - By Sean Doherty "MIMIC Virtual Lab will keep your administrators well-connected to Cisco IOS." |
| September 1, 2005 | Network Computing Magazine "SNEAK PREVIEW - MIMIC Virtual Lab CCNA - Network Crash-Test Dummies " by Bruce Boardman
"I wanted to see how much support for other IOS commands the simulator provides, because I had seen network simulators that support only a narrow subset of commands. This is not the case with MVL [MIMIC Virtual Lab]. The simulator doesn't support every command, but it is comprehensive in what it does support. ..." |
| July 22, 2005 |  The News Show Dreaming Of Networks (Video) by Bruce Boardman of Network Computing magazine"If you want to check out some new things without messing up your network, check out MIMIC Virtual Lab CCNA ... " |
| April , 2005 | Large Enterprise Business: Technology News Practice that profits
The cost of inefficient process is staggering. See how HP is
helping educate IT students to prepare them for what to expect. |
| March 30, 2005 |  OpenView iNFORUM newsletter Disaster Preparedness and Training by Bill Cicci, Network Solution Engineer, SITA "Gambit's MIMIC helps keep SITA flying high ... " |
| February 15, 2005 |  The National Center for Simulation Gambit/MIMIC More Intuitive and User-Friendly
"Makes GUI faster and more responsive ... " |
| December 08, 2004 |  TechRepublic Create a virtual router lab using Gambit's MIMIC by Michael Sweeney "Fortunately, with Gambit's MIMIC, you can simulate a Cisco environment
and do all the hard work without buying a single piece of hardware." |
| December, 2004 | OpenView iNFORUM newsletter Practice that Profits by Tracy Avent, HP Education Consultant "Using MIMIC it is possible to simulate a variety of scenarios that
students might shortly face at their workplace.
... " |
| October 1, 2004 |  INDIA New England Gambit's new product helps network engineers by Mark Pickering |
| September 02, 2004 | HP Dev Resource Central Gambit gives non-stop systems a real test
"Test a new application for a non-stop environment, a network
comprised of ten thousand devices? It's essential, of course,
but not so easy untill Gambit was formed ... " |
| August 05, 2004 | OpenView iNFORUM newsletter Network Simulators for Solving Budget Problems
"The use of a simulated "virtual" lab can eliminate the need for or expand the scope of an existing physical lab.
... " |
| July 13, 2004 | TechRepublic Simulated labs offer low-cost alternative to IT pros seeking Cisco Certification by Michael Sweeney "This (MIMIC) simulator is easily the most sophisticated of the three tested .. ... MIMIC also is the only simulator of the three that fully supports the routing protocol BGP." |
| Spring 2004 |  Stevens Institute of Technology - Dept Electrical & Computer Engineering The Course CpE 565: Management of LANs uses MIMIC SNMP Simulator It was offered in Fall 03, Spring I 04 and Spring II 04 by Prof. S.K. Tewksbury. |
| April, 2004 | HP Openview Education & Training New Advanced Network Node Manager Course available worldwide
"The Extended Topology labs use a SNMP simulation package called MIMIC. This powerful simulator allows the product to be run in a live environment, giving students the opportunity to experience common deployment problems and learn how to troubleshoot them. ... " |
| March 18, 2004 | India New England "Gambit hopes to imitate success with new software" by Mark Pickering |
| January, 2004 |  Lilien Systems 5 Day training on HP OpenView NNM 7.0 Advanced |
| November 03, 2003 |  Network World Fusion "Gambit Simulates Enterprise IT" by Dennis Drogseth
"For enterprise users seeking economies in the evaluation, introduction and enhancement of new SNMP management products - Virtual Lab should be particularly worthwhile ... " |
| October 30, 2003 | Network Computing Magazine "Quick Takes " by Bruce Boardman
"If you are considering new products for your network but want to first test them out, Mimic Virtual Lab Enterprise offers a safe, real-world environment consisting of multiple simulated networks of routers, switches and end systems. ..." |
| October 13, 2003 |  Mass High Tech "Gambit Simulates the network with virtual software" by Elizabeth Dinan |
| September 23, 2003 |  Certification Magazine "GAMBIT Introduces MIMIC Virtual Lab Enterprise for Evaluation and Training Simulator" |
| September 16, 2003 | Network World Fusion "Virtual router labs" by Amy Schurr
"One of the challenges some people pursuing Cisco certification face is getting their hands on equipment to practice with ... Virtual labs are one alternative." |
| May 16, 2003 |  IT Pro, NikkeiBP Workplace, Japan "Digital Architect Corp. (Gambit's distributor in Japan) is scheduled to introduce Mimic SNMP Agent Simulator 6.0" |
| January 21, 2003 |  Interface NOW "Gambit launches MIMIC Virtual Lab" by Jo McIntyre
"I think this is very productive and cost effective." Debra Curtis, Research Director at Gartner Group |
| January 2003 |  Enterprise Networking Magazine "Gambit Introduces Virtual Lab for Cisco Training Centers" |
| December 16, 2002 |  The Web Host Industry Review "Gambit Debuts Virtual Cisco Training Lab " |
| October 2002 |  Netcool Users Conference Presentation about MIMIC Simulator " How to increase the ROI of your management system through simulation" by Dennis Morton of Greenwich Technology Partners |
| October 4, 2002 |  New Hampshire Business Review "Gambit's network simulator is a virtual laboratory" by Cindy Kibbe |
| June 03 , 2002 |  Miercom MIMIC Simulator's Performance Verified in "Lab Testing Summary Report" by Miercom |
| March 26, 2002 |
Interface NOW "Gambit simulator targets Cisco trainees" by Samantha Pena |
| March 15 , 2002 | India New England "N.H.-based Gambit releases new 'MIMIC' product for simulating network
devices" |
| March 4, 2002 | Network World Fusion "New tools ease Cisco IOS mgmt." by Phil Hochmuth |
| February 28, 2002 | The Nashua Telegraph "Gambit
to release MIMIC Simulator" |
| February 26, 2002 |  CT's Pipeline "Virtual Labs: Can They Provide Network Resiliency and ROI?" |
| February 25, 2002 | Certification Magazine "MIMIC Simulator 5.30 to facilitate Cisco
certification" |
| February 25, 2002 | The Web Host Industry Review "Gambit
Communications' New MIMIC Simulator Provides a Virtual Lab for IT Professionals" |
| January 23, 2002 | The Web Host Industry Review "Gambit
Communications and NOC Builder to improve NOCs" |
| January 14, 2002 | Mass High Tech "Gambit names Paul Pappas as vice president of sales" |
| December 11, 2001 |
 Cisco World
"New networking testing tool simulates Cisco devices" |
| December 11, 2001 |  Light Reading "Gambit Mimics" |
| December 10, 2001 | Network Computing Magazine "SNMP Sim Suites: Simplify Testing and Training" by Bruce Boardman |
| June 25, 2001 |
Interface NOW "Gambit rolls out simulation software" by Greg Mazzola
|
| May 14, 2001 | Network
Computing Magazine "Peregrine Perches Atop the Pack: How we
tested network management platforms" by Bruce Boardman.
"MIMIC gave us a predictable target for SNMP performance." |
| April 27, 2001 |
Interface NOW "InteQ adopts Gambit software" by Patty Enrado
|
| April, 2001 | India New England "N.H.-based Gambit boasts big-name customers" by Martin Desmarais
|
| March 19, 2001 | "Instead of investing in hardware to create a preproduction test bed, you can use MIMIC to evaluate issues of scalability, policy implementation and device support." |
| March, 2001 |  LIGHTWAVE Magazine "Faster service provisioning via sophisticated software" by Pankaj
Shah, Patricia Chrystycz - Gambit Communications, Matt Hoffman - Appian
Communications |
| December 11, 2000 |  Network Computing Magazine - "The Survivor's Guide to 2001:
Network & Systems Management" by Bruce Boardman.
|
| December, 2000 |  Network Magazine: New Products
& Services - Cable-Modem Management Simulation Tool from Gambit. |
| September 4, 2000 | |
| September, 2000 |  SUN ServerWorld "Quallaby builds lab to model NSP deployment strategies" "The lab operates with 12 Sun Enterprise 4500 servers configured as 8 network data collectors (2 CPUs each) monitoring 400,000 MIMIC agent-simulated network resources .." |
| July, 2000 | |
| May 26, 2000 | PlanetIT "N+I Review: Good Times For Systems Manager" By Oliver Rist, Contributing Editor
"MIMIC lets you see how that software would react in specific stress, alert and disaster simulations." |
| May 22, 2000 | "In the real world, this (MIMIC) makes for a great disaster-recovery and capacity-planning tool. In my world, it's just a great testing tool." |
| May 8, 2000 | Mass High Tech "Pair
of firms help companies train workers on, troubleshoot networks" By
Faycal Benhassain |
| February 7, 2000 | Network Computing "Network Management That Works" By Bruce Boardman.
...the simulation looked like a routed interface to the network performance products under test, and let us vary the MIB values in predictable and radical ways.... |
| October 20, 1999 |  Redmond Magazine "Gambit Releases SNMP Simulation for Enterprises" By Scott Bekker. |
| September 7, 1999 | |
| September 1, 1999 | LIGHTWAVE Magazine p. 110 "Simulation design software boosts optical networking." by Robert
Pease
... Simulation software tools for telecommunications applications such as equipment design, network management, or network development are being applauded by industry analysts as useful and cost-effective methods for improving today's networks... |
| August 23, 1999 | "... IT organizations looking to try out policies and new management applications before moving into production are just beginning to use MIMIC. For large environments, at least, this makes sense and can save real money. ..." |
| August 23, 1999 | |
| August 3, 1998 | LanTimes reviews MIMIC SNMP Agent Simulator "MIMIC is a good match for any organization that already has a management framework system, such as HP OpenView, in place." "... the simulations are powerful and accurate enough for even the most exacting customer." "We found it a powerful and unique tool for re-creating enterprise networks ..." "... we recommend MIMIC to anyone who is interested in having a "check" on their network management system ..." |
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