Quallaby and Gambit Communications form partnership
to model service provider networks
Companies
partner to speed deployment of service assurance solution
Lowell, MA and Nashua, NH—December 11, 2000—Quallaby Corporation, the leading provider of network performance management solutions for service providers, and Gambit Communications, the leading provider of SNMP-based network management tools, announced today they have formed a technology partnership to share information with respect to modeling service provider networks in order to improve the rollout of performance monitoring in large, multi-vendor network environments.
Quallaby 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™ Simulator from Gambit is
best-in-class software for simulating multi-vendor networks on a very large
scale and can streamline the test environment for PROVISO thereby enhancing
reliability and validating performance numbers.
“Quallaby does not just pay lip service
to service provider requirements,” said Steve Broadhead, director of the NSS
Group, the highly respected independent testing lab based Europe that just
published a report on PROVISO. “I have seen Quallaby’s lab in action populated
with thousands of MIMIC simulated devices, and PROVISO truly is designed to
support extremely large, global networks.”
MIMIC helps to create a virtual lab populated with devices
like routers, hubs, switches, probes, workstations, and more. In addition
to providing hundreds of thousands of simulated devices for scalability testing,
MIMIC resource simulation tool can easily record service providers’ networks,
bringing that environment directly to the lab. Thus, service provider prospects and customers
can see how PROVISO will run on their exact network configuration – assuring
them that PROVISO will meet their needs. Service providers can also build simulated future configurations
and test drive PROVISO against them – assuring their growth will be accommodated
and eliminating guesswork.
“MIMIC
is important to everything we do,” said Bob Garvey, Quallaby director of Application
Pack product management. “It enables us to immediately incorporate support
for many hardware devices, often while they're still in beta. Not only does
MIMIC simulate the device, but it also simulates loads of traffic just like
a busy, service provider network. The combination of MIMIC and PROVISO enables
NSPs to rapidly roll out new services knowing that they have a tested and
proven service assurance solution.”
“Service providers
deal with huge amounts of equipment and customer liability as well,” said
Pankaj Shah, Gambit Communication’s VP of Marketing. “By focusing so strongly on service provider
requirements, Quallaby is a good match for MIMIC. MIMIC helps Quallaby assure
those providers that they are choosing a performance management tool that
will meet their needs now and well into the future.”
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. MIMIC simulator records SNMP
agents, then "plays back" simulations for use in applications from
development and testing to operator training and disaster simulations. MIMIC's
over 100 customers include Nortel, Cisco, HP, IBM, Riversoft, MCI, Lucent,
Marconi, Alcatel, Quallaby, Veritas, Fujitsu, Intel, and Ericsson. For more
information on Gambit and MIMIC, visit www.gambitcomm.com.
About Quallaby
Quallaby Corporation is a leading provider of highly scalable network management
solutions worldwide. PROVISO® from Quallaby® is the first carrier-class network
monitoring and service assurance solution to enable carriers and network service
providers to build the network performance data marts they need to meet their
business requirements. Customers include France Telecom, UUNet, and Telefonica.
Internationally headquartered in Lowell, Massachusetts, Quallaby has sales
offices in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, California, Texas and Virginia.
Quallaby is a privately-held company. For more information, call toll-free
877/QUALLABY (782-5522) or visit Quallaby's web site at www.quallaby.com
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Communications, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
MIMIC and Gambit Communications are trademarks of Gambit Communications,
Inc.
For more information contact:
Nan Shnitzler
Quallaby Corporation
978-322-4242
Daryle Lamoureux
Gambit Communications, Inc.
(603) 881-3500 x52