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Xylan, an Alcatel company
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."
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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 user. 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."
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Marconi
Frank Radish, Network Management Test
"We have been using
MIMICTM 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."
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Hewlett Packard Company
Bruce Trull, Engineering Manager
"We have significantly improved our
software development execution with MIMICTM 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."
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Computer Associates
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."
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InfoVista
Bob Verboski, Project/Pre-Sales Manager
"MIMIC has really simplified
our trade show demo set-up and proven to be a powerful sale tool. In the past,
we had to budget for demo devices ~V figuring out which devices would best
show the strengths of our software. With MIMIC, we've virtually eliminated the
demo hardware budget and its related shipping and set up costs, not to mention
the booth real estate required for racks of hardware product that we don't
even sell. Now, we offer our personnel the flexibility to demonstrate
InfoVista in scenarios that make sense to our diverse audience of enterprises,
telcos, service providers, and outsourcers."
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EDS
David Sleigher, Systems Administrator
"MIMICTM 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."
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Xylan Corporation, an Alcatel company
Patrick Kirby, Director, NMS Development
"XYLAN Corporation is using
MIMICTM 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."
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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."
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ISR Global Telecom
Ed Draiss, Sales Applications Engineer
"MIMICTM 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 management 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."
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Applied Innovation Inc.
Sherri Whisman, Manager, Verification Test
"Through the use of the
MIMICTM 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."
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Bigtime Software
John Weber, Network Management Consultant
"MIMICTM 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."