Kaplan IT / Transcender recommends MIMIC Virtual Lab Cloud

Did you know that Kaplan IT / Transcender is using IOS simulation provided
by MIMIC Virtual Lab Cloud from Gambit Communications for its CCNA
practice courses? Find out here.

MIMIC Virtual Lab Cloud is based on MIMIC Simulator, the premier SNMP simulation product.

iCCNAlab 5.50 for Apple iPhone / iPod / iPad

We have just released a new version of the iCCNAlab app for Apple
iPhone / iPod / iPad. The app provides the user interface to CCNA practice
labs. These are on-line labs simulated by MIMIC Virtual Lab Cloud. The
new version sports a much improved interface, including the new
"learn-by-example" frame which shows what other users are currently
doing in their pods.

Gambit's MIMIC Virtual Lab along with the Cisco certification course
material provide you a complete package for your Cisco CCNA training.
You have access to a virtual practice lab of Cisco routers and switches
to explore troubleshooting scenarios and apply classroom coursework at
your own pace, anywhere, anytime.

Using your Apple mobile device, you can access the lab and can quickly begin
practicing a large set of Cisco IOS commands on various Cisco Routers and
Switches. These devices are connected using LAN, WAN and Serial links.
You can interact with the lab network, just like they are accessing real
devices.  At the same time you can experiment with different
configurations on the devices and network without worrying about
misconfiguring them, at a fraction of the cost of a physical lab. In addition, you
also have access to these labs through any web browser, which gives you the
added choice and flexibility to practice your course work from anywhere.

Below is a sample pod session on an iPad.

MIMIC SNMP Simulator 10.30 runs on Fedora 14 LXDE spin

FYI we ran MIMIC SNMP Simulator 10.30 out of the box on this popular Fedora spin.

The screenshot shows an SNMP simulation being discovered.

MIMIC SNMP Simulator 10.30 runs on Puppy Linux 5.1.1

FYI, MIMIC Simulator 10.30 runs out of the box on Puppy Linux 5.1.1.
Previous reports have demonstrated MIMIC operating on a variety of Linuxes.
This demonstrates that MIMIC can run well on the smallest of Linux distributions.
The screenshot below shows an agent being queried remotely.

MIMIC 10.30 Performance Test Report: Linux vs. Windows

FYI, we have just published a new MIMIC Simulator 10.30 Performance Report

"Fedora 13 vs. Windows Server 2003"

This report is part of a series meant to answer the question "which
combination of hardware and software performs the best for a particular
SNMP simulation scenario?".

The summary is:
"...
This report documents the performance differences between the recently
released Fedora 13 and Windows Server 2003.

Previous performance reports had established Windows Server 2003 as the
clearly best performing Windows platform to run MIMIC on. This report
establishes how much faster MIMIC 10.30 runs under Fedora 13.

The first table shows the difference for the 64-bit executable
performance between Windows Server 2003 (left) and Fedora 13 (right).
Fedora 13 greatly outperforms Windows 2003 everywhere (green cells) by
as much as 24-fold at 20,000 agents.

The second table shows the difference for the 32-bit executable
performance. The difference is not as dramatic here. While Windows 2003
is better than Fedora 13 between 3% and 5% for 4 cells at the low end
(red cells), Fedora 13 greatly outperforms Windows 2003 everywhere else
(green cells) by as much as 7-fold at 10,000 agents.
..."

Please contact support@gambitcomm.com for details.

Options for CCNA study

Options for CCNA study
Usually you get what you pay for, sometimes less, rarely more



The aspiring CCNA certificant has a multitude of options to study
for their CCNA. The logical choices largely depend on the individual's
current skillset, their talent, and their future aspirations for after
their certificate.

Choices range (sorted largely by price) from

• illegal braindumps, to
• no-cost study guides, practice labs, to
• emulators like GNS3, to
• pirated versions of PacketTracer, to
• renting racks, to
• low-cost simulators, to
• books, to
• refurbished hardware on eBay, to
• full-fledged courses by established training houses, etc.

All of these approaches have their pros and cons. Combinations or
sequences of any of these are usually applied towards achieving the
certification.

First, the CCNA student has to ask themselves whether they want to
only get the certificate, or actually learn the material.  Assuming
the latter, that would eliminate choices like the braindumps.

The next issue is how much effort the student wants to invest in ancillary
tasks, like installing software, setting up labs, dealing with incorrect
material, etc. that have nothing to do with the curriculum.

The last decision is about "bang for the buck": what is the cheapest
combination of these choices that will lead to success? This is a tough
question, because each individual learns differently, and we are talking
about probabilities: will the effort and the method I invest in result in
a passing grade in the test, and ultimately in learning the material?

This is also about wasted effort: what parts of the approach are
unproductive towards the certification?  Will a solution costing hundreds
(if not thousands) of dollars lead to more success than one costing less
than a hundred dollars? What is the hidden cost of the free option?

For example, while free study guides such as Matt Basham's "Learning
by Doing: CISCO Certified Network Administrator (CCNA) Lab Manual"
provide a good introduction to the material, they lack the hands-on practice
lab that the certification requires. A good book will include a lab or point
to one.

Ultimately it comes down to investing a small amount of effort into
investigating proven solutions and their alternatives. The first-class
choice comes at a premium. The free approach comes at the expense of
effort. The middle options range in cost effectiveness. Products which
let you try before you buy are always preferred to shelling out your
buck for an unknown solution.

Every "expert" will give you a different recommendation, every vendor
will push their solution.

What was your sequence of solutions and would you do it again?
Were there unexpected costs in your CCNA studies?

We encourage you to spend 20 minutes to investigate for FREE a solution
where you get MORE than what you pay for: MIMIC Virtual Lab Cloud,
a simulated practice lab for CCNA certification.  Kaplan IT Learning
has chosen it, shouldn't you?

Go to http://www.gambitcomm.com/cloud_vlab/ or search on Youtube for
"ccna lab one minute".

MIMIC SNMP Simulator 10.30 runs on Slackware 13.1

FYI, we have recently tested MIMIC SNMP Simulator on the newly released Slackware 13.1. 

This adds to the already tested Linux platforms (RedHat, SuSE, CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu,
Knoppix, antiX, MEPIS, Debian, etc), and Windows and Solaris.

We show an active SNMP simulation in this screenshot:

MIMIC 10.30 Performance Test Report: Windows 64-bit bakeoff

FYI, we have published a new MIMIC Simulator 10.30 Performance Report

"Windows 64-bit bakeoff on dual-core Intel Pentium"

This report is part of a series meant to answer the question "which
combination of hardware and software performs the best for a particular
SNMP simulation scenario?".

The summary is:
"...
This report compares MIMIC SNMP Simulator 10.30 running under 4 recent Windows versions

• Windows Server 2003 Standard SP2
• Windows Vista Ultimate SP1
• Windows Server 2008 Standard
• Windows 7 Professional

on a commonly available desktop model Dell Vostro 200 with a Intel Pentium dual core E2160 1.8GHz and 2 GB of RAM. 

In this report we focus on the 64-bit executable version of MIMIC. The 32-bit version is documented in a separate report. The 2 versions run comparably for all platforms, overwhelmingly within single-digit percentage difference, except for Windows 7, where 64-bit runs around 20% slower for some cells in the 2,000 and 5,000 agent configurations.

 As we have seen in past reports, the Windows OS versions successively perform worse in our standard SNMP performance tests. Windows Server 2003 performs best, followed by Vista and Server 2008 (although it is a toss-up between those 2, depending on your requirements), and finally Windows 7 performs worst. 

The following matrix compares Windows Server 2003 to Windows Vista. The 2 versions are about even (within single-digit percentage difference) for 10 and 100 agent configurations. But, for 1,000 to 5,000 agents, Windows 2003 outperforms Vista (red cells), even though Vista seems to perform better for low agent numbers.
 ..."

Please contact support@gambitcomm.com for details.

MIMIC 10.30 Performance Test Report: Windows 32-bit bakeoff

FYI, we have published a new MIMIC Simulator 10.30 Performance Report

"Windows 32-bit bakeoff on dual-core Intel Pentium"

This report is part of a series meant to answer the question "which
combination of hardware and software performs the best for a particular
SNMP simulation scenario?".

The summary is:
"...
This report compares MIMIC SNMP Simulator 10.30 running under the 5 most
recent Windows versions

    * Windows Server 2003 Standard SP2
    * Windows XP Professional SP3
    * Windows Vista Ultimate SP1
    * Windows Server 2008 Standard
    * Windows 7 Professional

on a commonly available desktop model Dell Vostro 200 with a Intel
Pentium dual core E2160 1.8GHz and 2 GB of RAM.

In this report we focus on the 32-bit executable version of MIMIC. The
64-bit version is documented in a separate report.

As we have seen in past reports, the Windows OS versions successively
perform worse in our standard SNMP performance tests. Windows Server 2003
performs best, followed by XP, Vista and Server 2008 (although it is a
toss-up between those 3, depending on your requirements), and finally
Windows 7 performs worst.
..."

Please contact support@gambitcomm.com for details.

MIMIC SNMP Simulator 10.30 runs on Fedora 13 LXDE spin

In our quest to run MIMIC Simulator on as many platforms as possible, we have
recently tested it on the newly released Fedora 13 LXDE spin.
After disabling the firewall, we show an active SNMP simulation in this screenshot:

MIMIC SNMP Simulator 10.30 runs out-of-the-box on Knoppix 6.2

We have just run MIMIC SNMP Simulator on Knoppix 6.2
without any problems. The screenshot shows activity on a SNMP simulation:

New MIMIC Application Brief: Port Scanner and Sweeper Testing

We have just released a new application brief for MIMIC Server Simulator, which
in conjunction with MIMIC SNMP Simulator creates virtual networks for development,
testing and training of network management applications.

Here is an excerpt:

A fast, easy way of containing capital expenditures for port scanning and network management
software testing is by using the MIMIC Server Simulator. MIMIC Server Simulator creates a large
network with a variety of devices with different IP addresses. Each of them can be setup to
support many services running on different ports. MIMIC makes it easier to switch ports on/off at
run-time. It is also very easy to add latency or create a faulty links by dropping packets. Since
MIMIC’s services are proxied, even the advanced port+probing software can be fooled into
thinking that the actual service is there.

For details, see the Gambit website.

MIMIC SNMP Simulator 10.30 runs on antiX-M8.5

FYI, we have run MIMIC SNMP Simulator on antiX-M8.5 Linux with no problems. The screenshot of an active SNMP
simulation being accessed remotely is below:

MIMIC SNMP Simulator runs on MEPIS Linux 8.5

FYI, we were able to run MIMIC SNMP Simulator 10.30 on
MEPIS Linux straight out of the box,
as shown in the screenshot below.

MIMIC 10.30 Performance Test Report: High-scalability (64-bit) Linux bakeoff

FYI, we have published a new MIMIC SNMP Simulator 10.30 Performance Report

"High scalability (64-bit) for 9 Linux distributions on quad-CPU Sunfire V40z"

This report is part of a series meant to answer the question "which combination of hardware
and software performs the best for a particular SNMP simulation scenario?".

The summary is:
-----------------------------------------------------------

This report compares MIMIC 10.30 running 64-bit mode under 9 different Linux distributions
on a quad CPU AMD Opteron 850 2.4 GHz Sunfire V40z:

1.Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4
2.Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5.5
3.CentOS 5.2
4.Fedora Core 6
5.Fedora 7
6.Fedora 9
7.Fedora 10
8.Fedora 11
9.Fedora 12

The 32-bit and 64-bit executables have comparable performance on all tested platforms
(within single-digit percentage difference with minor exceptions). We focused on the low
range (10 to 1,000 agent configurations) in a previous report. In this report we focus on
high-scalability (2,000 to 20,000 agents) requirements which can only be handled with the
64-bit distribution of MIMIC.

In summary, the best overall performer is RedHat Enterprise Linux AS4. RHEL4 substantially
outperforms all other tested distributions in the mid-range (2,000 to 5,000 agents). At the
high-end (8,000 to 20,000 agents), 2nd place goes to Fedora 10, followed by Fedora 9 and
Fedora Core 6, with the remaining distributions trailing badly. Unfortunately we are noticing
that newer releases of Fedora are performing worse in this test.

MIMIC SNMP Simulator 10.30 Performance Report: Linux Bakeoff

FYI, we have published a new MIMIC Simulator 10.30 Performance Report

"Low scaleability (32-bit) for 11 Linux distributions on quad-CPU Sunfire V40z"

The summary is:
-----------------------------------------------------------
This report compares MIMIC SNMP Simulator 10.30 running 32-bit mode under 11
different Linux distributions on a quad CPU AMD Opteron 850 2.4 GHz Sunfire V40z:

1. Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4
2. Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5.5
3. CentOS 5.2
4. Fedora Core 6
5. Fedora 7
6. Fedora 8
7. Fedora 9
8. Fedora 10
9. Fedora 11
10. Fedora 12
11. Ubuntu 9.10

The 32-bit and 64-bit executables have comparable performance on all platforms (within single-digit percentage difference with minor
exceptions). In this report we focus on low-scaleability (upto 1000 agents) requirements which can be handled with the 32-bit distribution
of MIMIC.

In summary, the best overall performer is RedHat Enterprise Linux AS4, followed by RedHat Enterprise Linux 5.5, then CentOS 5.2, Fedora 7,
Fedora Core 6, Fedora 8, with the remaining distributions trailing the field. Unfortunately we are noticing that newer releases of Fedora are
performing worse in this test.
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Mibtree Provides Training for Multiple Network Management Applications using MIMIC Simulator Suite

“MIMIC allows us to simulate multiple network configurations quickly and easily."

Tony Barratt
Training Consultant
Mibtree


Mibtree is a systems integration, training and consultancy company specializing in the design and deployment of network management solutions based around best of breed products, including IBM Tivoli BMC, CA, Compuware and Adaptive Computing. Mibtree provides training and consultancy services worldwide through dedicated training centers and offices.


Training Environment

Mibtree is proud of its reputation of providing training that improves a student’s confidence as well as their skills and knowledge. To achieve this, along with the strong curriculum, Mibtree makes use of realistic labs for the hands-on training. Many of the products monitor or control networked environments.

Providing network management training is a difficult task. Underlying the training of the software needs an extensive network of multi-vendor hardware that gives the student a real-world network management experience. Also, the training environment should be safe enough so the students can exercise the hands-on training freely without disturbing other students or the network.

The difficulty faced by Mibtree, however, is providing students with real life infrastructures and situations. They had a hardware lab consisting of a Cisco switch and a couple of small routers on the local LAN. They really needed many more devices from a variety of manufacturers to setup the training, but the expense in terms of time and money, along with complications was very high. The hardware expense, space and setup requirements at multiple sites, was cost prohibitive. Also setting up practice networks to any realistic degree in order to train students with a wide variety of element configurations and other negative conditions is challenging. It was harder to setup the network for training, dismantle it and then setup another one for different management software. To set this up at a customer site is even more cumbersome.

Instead of using a costly hardware infrastructure, Mibtree decided to create a safe sandbox environment for students, which closely simulates the required networks. After looking at a few simulators, Mibtree chose MIMIC SNMP Simulator to provide the underlying network for their network management training classes.

Solution

Mibtree selected MIMIC SNMP Simulator as a way to create realistic network environments. It provided the flexibility they needed to create any network lab they needed, at their local and remote locations.


MIMIC is used with the training of the following products:
   • IBM Tivoli Netcool Manager for IP Networks (NMIP)
   • IBM Tivoli Netcool Proviso
   • Nimsoft

 Figure 1 - IBM Tivoli ITNM connected to MIMIC and shows the network view

Mibtree uses MIMIC to simulate mesh network containing multiple routers and switches from various vendors. MIMIC is used to demonstrate SNMP based discovery, specifically with IBM’s NMIP product. MIMIC simulated networks are also used to teach network monitoring and root cause analysis techniques such as suppressing downstream symptom alarms and escalating actual root cause alarms.

Instructors just need to load the saved lab configuration before the class. They don’t need to worry about the network setup or trouble shooting. They are able to simulate a variety of scenarios that students might shortly face back at their workplace. For example, instructors are also able to simulate failure in any node and train students in root cause analysis. They can also dynamically simulate lightly loaded and overloaded routers by changing some parameters using the MIMIC GUI. They can deliver the same labs at all locations so all instructions in the course material remain the same.

MIMIC allows Mibtree to simulate multiple network configurations quickly and easily. With MIMIC, Mibtree can do this with a much lower capital investment than buying real network equipment for demonstration purposes and with much higher availability and security than if they tried to reuse bits of their live infrastructure. Mibtree deploys the same MIMIC simulator for different courses as needed and turns it on only when required which minimizes power costs.

MIMIC saves time in setting up the lab by creating complex scenarios and storing those for future use. With MIMIC, Mibtree saves a significant amount of money by simulating expensive devices which are cost prohibitive. Instructors can train on the real issues quickly and reliably using simulation rather than physical devices. The consulting division can tailor demos to the individual customer's environment. MIMIC Simulator helps Mibtree to keep their enterprise students happy and staff more productive.

MIMIC SNMP Simulator on Debian GNU/Linux 5.04

We have been able to run MIMIC SNMP Simulator 10.30 on
Debian GNU/Linux 5.04 straight out of the box.

10 new H3C devices for MIMIC SNMP Simulator

FYI, we have released 10 new H3C device SNMP simulations:

• H3C Comware Software Version 5.20, Release 1206P02, Basic..H3C Series
  Router MSR30-20
  
  
• H3C Comware Software, Version 3.40, Release 0112P02.H3C Router AR18-31E
  
  
• H3C Comware Software, Version 3.40, Release 6101.H3C Router AR18-63-1
  
  
• H3C Comware Software, Version 3.40, Feature 1643 H3C Router SecPath F100-E
  
  
• H3C Comware Software, Version 3.40, Feature 1655 H3C Router SecPath F1000-S
  
  
• H3C Comware Software, Version 3.40, Release 1608 H3C Router SecPath F100-S
  
  
• H3C S7500E -CMW520-6105P05, H3C S7500E Series Switch
  
  
• Huawei-3Com Comware, Version 3.40, Release 1607 Router SecPath F1000-A
  
  
• H3C Versatile Routing Platform Software..VRP (R) Software Version 3.40, Release 0201..Quidway Series Router AR46-40
  
  
• H3C Versatile Routing Platform Software..VRP (R) Software Version
  3.40, RELEASE RT-0014..Quidway Series Router AR46-20
  
  

You can download them with the Update Wizard in MIMICView.

18 new Huawei devices for MIMIC SNMP Simulator

FYI, we have released 18 new Huawei device SNMP simulations:

* HUA WEI CORP. SNMP agent for Quidway R2621 Software Version VRP 1.65
* HUA WEI CORP. SNMP agent for QuidWay R2621E Software Version VRP 1.4.1
* HUA WEI CORP. SNMP agent for QuidWay R2631E Software Version VRP 1.5.6
* Huawei VRP Software Version 3.40, Release 0201P07..Quidway Series Router AR46-40
* Huawei Versatile Routing Platform Software Version..Quidway S2008-HI
* Huawei Versatile Routing Platform Software Version 3.10..Quidway S2016-EI
* Huawei Versatile Routing Platform Software, Software Version 3.10, Release 0010..Quidway S2016-HI
* Huawei Versatile Routing Platform Software Version..Quidway S2403H-HI
* Huawei Versatile Routing Platform Software Version 3.10..Quidway S2403H
* Huawei Versatile Routing Platform Software, Software Version 3.10, Release 2107P01..Quidway S2403TP-EA
* Huawei Versatile Routing Platform Software Version 3.10..Quidway S3528G
* Huawei Versatile Routing Platform Software Version 3.10..Quidway S3528G
* Huawei Versatile Routing Platform Software Version 3.10..Quidway S3552G
* VRP Comware Platform Software, Software Version 5.20, Release 5303..Quidway S3552P-EA
* Huawei VRP Software Version 3.10, Release 1510P02..Quidway S3928P-EI
* Huawei VRP Software Version 3.10, Release 1510P02..Quidway S3952P-EI
* Huawei Versatile Routing Platform Software, Software Version 3.10, Release 1278P08..Quidway S8512-EI
* Huawei VRP Netengine Software Version VRPV500R001B12D053SP05..NE20-4 Version V200R002C01B200

You can download them with the Update Wizard in MIMICView.

Preventing network outages

Outages for major networks and websites have become so common-place, there
are even sites dedicated to reporting them.

For example, the recent Youtube outage caused a flurry of tweets. This
interesting posting details a technique to use Google's timeline feature to track
outages of major sites. Using that technique, one can search for "network
outage", and track down a Playstation 3 network outage starting February 28
that lasted for a couple of days.

Rarely does one get to know the specifics of a particular outage, such as
root cause and duration. When details are reported, one has to be skeptical
as to the veracity of the report. Regardless of the cause, what is interesting
is the relation of the cost of downtime caused by outages vs. the cost to prevent them.

The telephone companies calculated that relation a long time ago when they
instituted the five nines metric of uptime. They figured they could live with
the cost of 5 minutes downtime a year, and spent the money on resources to get
there.

When you plan for spending resources on your network reliability, ask yourself
how long a downtime you can live with first, then allocate the resources in
man-power, equipment and software to achieve the desired reliability.

SNMP simulation software allows you to test your network management
procedures before network outages occur.

Lessons learned from Toyota

The recent Toyota safety problems remind us of the need for more thorough testing
of complicated, interconnected systems, such as computer networks. As networks
become ever more entangled in human lives, preventing problems such as Toyota's does
not only make financial sense, but also could affect our comfort, safety and health.

What if you could put your network management system through its paces like driving
a car at 500 miles per hour for years? What if you could introduce glitches into your
correlation engines like those acceleration anomalies? What if you could drive your
network around the proverbial test track not once but a million times?

With SNMP simulation you can, and if there is any pushback, just remind them of Toyota.

HP Procurve network in MIMIC SNMP Simulator

FYI, we have recently released a new network in the network library
for MIMIC SNMP Simulator: a small network comprised of HP Procurve
switches. The topology is shown in this diagram produced by
CastleRock's SNMPc.

MIMIC SNMP Simulator on Mandriva Linux 2010

MIMIC SNMP Simulator 10.20 ran out of the box on Mandriva Linux 2010
after disabling the firewall.

MIMIC SNMP Simulator on Fedora 12 LXDE Spin

FYI, we were able to run MIMIC SNMP Simulator 10.20 on Fedora 12 LXDE Spin
after disabling the Firewall. See the screenshot:

The iPhone bandwidth dilemma

With Verizon eyeing the iPhone (see PC World Story) the trend for bandwidth-hogging
smart phones (see Fortune story) continues to accelerate.
In addition to expanded spectrum, the additional network infrastructure will have to be
managed efficiently. Gambit Communications' MIMIC Simulator is uniquely
positioned to assist in developing smart network management and provisioning
environments, as it has already done for Go Networks and other wireless vendors.

MIMIC SNMP Simulator 10.20 runs on VectorLinux

MIMIC SNMP Simulator 10.20 has been tested on VectorLinux 6.0. See screenshot:

Gambit Releases New Version 10.20 of MIMIC SNMP Simulator

MIMIC SNMP Simulator 10.20's new features include:

* Significant performance boost on multi-CPU systems.
* MIMIC is now supported on Fedora 11 and 12.
* Server Simulator now also supports IPv6; Additionally it allows communications from IPv4 to IPv6 and vice versa.

For more details see the press release.

MIMIC SNMP Simulator runs on Ubuntu 9.10

This screenshot shows MIMIC SNMP Simulator running on Ubuntu 9.10.

For list of supported platforms check our support page.

Gambit News: IndUS Business Journal "Going Green"

FYI, this article highlights how the MIMIC SNMP Simulator product saves energy costs
for customers:

Gambit Communications Inc. is a company, like AirGenerate, that scores with its customers on its cost-savings, but the green awareness quotient does continue to rise.
...
Now, however, Shah said that all IT managers and chief information officers always consider energy saving and "have green on their minds."

More details here.

MIMIC SNMP Simulator 10.10 on Crunchbang Linux

MIMIC SNMP Simulator runs out-of-the-box on
Crunchbang Linux:

MIMIC Simulator 10.10 runs on PuppyLinux 4.1.2

We have reports of MIMIC Simulator 10.10 running on PuppyLinux 4.1.2.
This SNMP simulation is running on a Thinkpad 380Z.
Attached is a screenshot.

Watch4net uses MIMIC Simulator

Watch4net has announced that they use MIMIC Simulator.

Watch4net, one of leading providers of service assurance software, announced that it is using Gambit Communications' MIMIC® Simulator to simplify the cycle of adding new vendors/technology support to its Watch4net APG Software Suite portfolio.

"MIMIC helps us maintain our leadership in service assurance software." said Vincent De Garie, Director Marketing Operations at Watch4net. "We use MIMIC in functional testing to simulate a controlled device behavior. MIMIC allows our engineers to run performance load tests and certify analytics from multiple technologies domains including Network, Wireless, Applications, and Storage. It is saving us time, money and enables us in creating many test scenarios which are hard to build."

See the full release here.