Nashua, NH – April 2, 2001 – Gambit Communications today announced that InteQ
Corporation, the enterprise Management Service Provider (MSP), has chosen
the MIMICTM Simulator for use in its development and operations
areas. After an exhaustive search
and testing period, InteQ’s engineers have determined that MIMIC is the only
simulator that can meet InteQ’s scalability, object support, parameter flexibility
and platform requirements.
InteQ’s InfraWatch™ management service provides proactive monitoring, notification and Web-based reporting on the health of complex IT and Internet infrastructures comprised of all types of networking gear, servers, databases and applications from vendors around the world. “Our business model is based on a one-to-many model, which means that we must be able to provide 24x7 visibility to hundreds of customers and thousands of objects from a few Monitoring Points-Of-Presence™ (M-POPs™),” explained Jay Martin, Director of Network Infrastructure Engineering at InteQ. “MIMIC was the only way to test this level of scalability for our services without bringing in dozens and dozens of servers and network devices.”
“We are very pleased with InteQ’s choice of the MIMIC Simulator,” said Uwe Zimmermann, President of Gambit Communications. “MIMIC’s powerful suite of simulation tools provides InteQ’s engineers with the capability to create an exact copy of their customers’ networks. Combining this capability with MIMIC’s extensibility and scalability, InteQ can assure their customers of their ability to meet future IT management demands.”
With
MIMIC, InteQ can set up virtual customer labs that simulate real IT environments,
avoiding the capital cost and administrative headaches of setting up a massive
physical lab. In addition, this affords InteQ the ability to more easily develop
custom management for their clients. Therefore, InteQ assures excellence in
management and customer satisfaction.
“With
MIMIC, InteQ’s engineers are able to perform real-world simulations to test
the performance, reliability, and look and feel of management services before
they’re put into production,” said Stephen Elliot, E-Services Manager at InteQ.
“InteQ’s background in IT service management consulting and management services
gives us the knowledge base to innovate and attract mid-sized and large enterprises
to our service offerings. MIMIC allows
us to quickly implement those innovations and meet the growing customer demand
for IT management services.”
InteQ
Corporation, founded in 1995 and based in Burlington, Massachusetts, is the
IT industry’s first Management Service Provider (MSP). As the leading MSP
for the e-economy, InteQ rapidly enables enterprises, e-businesses and service
providers to bring reliability and predictability to their IT environments.
Delivered on a subscription basis, InteQ InfraServices™ monitor, notify, track
and report on IT problems, availability, capacity and performance, enabling
clients to focus on their core business. InteQ delivers InfraServices 7x24x365
via its highly secure MSPnet™ network leveraging co-location facilities for
immediate provisioning. For more information on InteQ, visit the company’s
Web site at www.inteqnet.com or call
1-888-4IT-MGMT.
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).
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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© 2001 Gambit Communications,
Inc. All Rights Reserved.
MIMIC and Gambit Communications
are trademarks of Gambit Communications, Inc.
InfraWatch,
InfraStream, Monitoring Points-of-Presence and M-POPs are trademarks of InteQ
Corporation.
Contact: Daryle Lamoureux
Gambit Communications,
Inc.
(603) 881-3500 x52