Partners

Gambit Communications, Inc. has entered into partnerships with the following companies in order to promote better network management solutions.

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.

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.

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.

InterWorking Labs provides SilverCreek(TM), the SNMP Test Suite, for software engineers to find and fix bugs in their SNMP agent implementations. With more than 650 tests available for SNMPv1, v2, v3, and semantic tests for RMON1, RMON2, and the Printer MIB, InterWorking Labs has revolutionized the process of testing network products.

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.

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.

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.