Nashua, NH – April 23, 2001 – Gambit Communications announced today that American Power Conversion (NASDAQ: APCC), a global leader in end-to-end availability enhancement solutions, has utilized the MIMIC™ Simulator for its development and test environment for APC’s innovative PowerChuteÒ Inventory Manager software.
“Without MIMIC, it would have been extremely difficult and costly to make the level of scalability claims that we do with the new offering of our inventory management software,” said Kevin Brown, Software Group Director, APC. “We were very pleased with the MIMIC simulator’s capability to imitate a large network testing base for our developers to observe and test our software.”
APC’s PowerChute Inventory Manager provides enterprise-wide
management of APC UPSs, allowing IT Managers to automatically capture, organize
and assess vital information concerning their APC power infrastructure.
Many of APC’s customers have thousands of APC UPSs installed – the
PowerChute Inventory Manager was designed to accommodate these large installations,
offering administrators the ability to proactively maintain up to 10,000 APC
UPS systems on their network.
To
validate the PowerChute Inventory Manager’s capabilities in these installations,
APC turned to Gambit Communications’ MIMIC Simulator. MIMIC simulated large networks of APC devices
that developers and testers could use, saving them the time of setting up
large equipment labs and test networks.
The MIMIC Simulator was used to “record” the device MIBs for the APC product set, including the APC SNMP Software Agent and the Web/SNMP Management Card. The web card provides APC’s customers with the ability to manage, configure and control their power protection devices via SNMP, Telnet or even HTTP protocols. MIMIC was then used to simulate the devices and Web cards. Simulation scenarios were created with thousands of devices – mirroring a typical customer’s enterprise – and the claim of managing 10,000 devices was substantiated.
“We
evaluated other simulators, and MIMIC met our needs for testing this first
of its kind UPS management offering,“ said Brad Hammond, Software Program
Manager for PowerChute Inventory Manager from APC.
“Specifically, MIMIC supported the scalability requirements we had
and it allowed us to test multiple operating systems including Linux, providing
a comprehensive evaluation of the environments our customers are implementing.
Most importantly, the thorough testing process helps make the installation
of our product easy for our customers.”
Additional
information about APC and its global end-to-end solutions can be found by
accessing the APC World Wide Web site at www.apcc.com or by calling 800-877-4080.
MIMIC provides an inexpensive way for enterprises,
device vendors, management software developers and outsourcers to demo, test,
develop, train and certify management applications without purchasing equipment
and maintaining labs for those functions. MIMIC has the ability to simulate
up to 10,000 SNMP-based devices from one workstation. MIMIC simulations can
be distributed over multiple platforms for enterprise simulation testing of
even larger environments. MIMIC 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, v3), DHCP and TFTP, as well as RMON(1, 2).
To see a demonstration
of MIMIC Simulator, visit Gambit Communications (Booth 3165) at the Networld+Interop
Show in Las Vegas on May 8-10.
Founded
in 1995, Gambit Communications is a leader in network simulation tools that
enhance the productivity of network management developers and enterprise users
while lowering their costs. MIMIC Simulator is a family of simulators used
by leading networking vendors for use in applications from development and
testing to operator training and disaster simulations.
Gambit Communications’ portfolio
of over 100 customers includes: Computer Associates, HP, MCI, Lucent, Xylan,
GTE, APC, Quallaby, Seagate, InfoVista, Fujitsu, Marconi, Nortel, and
Ericsson. For more information on
Gambit and MIMIC, please visit www.gambitcommunications.com.
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Contact: Daryle Lamoureux
Gambit Communications,
Inc.
(603) 881-3500 x52