FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

                                            Contact: Patricia Chrystycz
                                            Gambit Communications, Inc.
                                            978-921-0492
                                            chrystycz@gambitcomm.com


Gambit Announces Industry's First Integrated Cable Modem Management 
                         Simulation Tool
Allows Real World Simulation of Cable Modems and Internetworking Gear

Nashua, NH - September 18, 2000 - Allowing cable modem developers and 
cable companies to finally perform real world, integrated cable and 
internetworking device simulations, Gambit Communications today introduced 
the industry's first integrated SNMP and scalable DHCP client simulation tool, 
the MIMIC(TM) SNMP Agent Simulator 4.40. MIMIC 4.40 allows suppliers of cable 
modems to design, develop, and test their products in a virtual, scalable, 
network environment, assuring customers that their cable modems will work 
properly when deployed across heterogeneous environments.

"By integrating cable modem management simulation, Gambit is ahead of the curve 
in addressing the need for managing converging services," said Dennis Drogseth, 
director, Enterprise Management Associates. "EMA dialog with users shows that 
MIMIC can accelerate time to market as well as cutting costs for management 
software developers. This breadth of support will be a welcome addition for many 
Service Providers."

Gambit is working with cable modem vendors to help implement a testing program 
framework for DOCSIS (data over cable system interface) standards along with 
extension to testing of OSS, including provisioning requirements of packet over 
cable for voice over IP services. Each of these areas can take advantage of the 
new features implemented in MIMIC 4.40, including:
- Scalable DHCP Support
- JAVA Toolkit control and customize simulated devices
- Telnet protocol support 
- Graphical visualization of statistics for supported protocols - this helps the 
user to quantitatively see how the management applications work with agents over 
a period of time. 

MIMIC 4.40 can be used by cable modem vendors to inexpensively demo, test, develop, 
train and certify their modems in an internetworking environment without purchasing 
all the equipment and maintaining labs for those functions. By simulating the SNMP 
and DHCP protocol modules of scores of cable modems, MIMIC provides vendors with 
extensive environments of virtual devices with which to test product capabilities 
and assure product quality.

Cable providers can use MIMIC to simulate the 1000s of households that use cable 
modems to assure the scalability of cable management software. In addition, 
providers can also use MIMIC for large scale OSS system testing deployments in 
place of large banks of Cable Modems, which would be cost prohibitive.

MIMIC 4.40 will be available in late October and will be demonstrated at N+I Atlanta 
in booth number 8139 and before the show at the JP Davis Press One media reception 
(contact www.jpdavis.com/press for an invitation).

About MIMIC
MIMIC provides an inexpensive way for enterprises, device vendors, management software 
developers, and outsourcers to demo, test, develop, train and certify SNMP-based 
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. It 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, and v3 as well as 
RMON1 and RMON2. MIMIC's over 100 customers include Nortel, Cisco, Computer Associates, 
HP, IBM, Riversoft, MCI, Lucent, Marconi, Alcatel, Quallaby, Veritas, InfoVista, 
Fujitsu, Intel, and Ericsson.

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. Gambit's SNMP agent simulation tool, 
MIMIC, records SNMP agents, then "plays back" simulations for use in applications 
from development and testing to operator training and disaster simulations. For more 
information on Gambit and MIMIC, please visit www.SNMPSimulation.com.

MIMIC and Gambit Communications are trademarks of Gambit Communications, Inc.

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