FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Pankaj Shah Gambit Communications, Inc. (603) 881-3500 pankaj@gambitcomm.com GAMBIT introduces MIMIC® Virtual Lab Enterprise for evaluation and training Simulator with pre-configured labs and exercises for SNMP and Cisco® Nashua, NH - September 22, 2003 - Gambit Communications, a leading network simulation tools provider, today announced the availability of MIMIC® Virtual Lab Enterprise for testing, evaluation prior to deployment, and training of enterprise management software. MIMIC Virtual Lab creates a real-world lab environment with networks populated with devices from different manufacturers. It provides access to the devices to evaluate new management products easily, yet exhaustively, prior to purchase and to customize them after purchase. MIMIC's unique feature, "Lab Exercises," generates numerous real-world conditions, both negative and positive, for a thorough test environment. MIMIC Virtual Lab provides a safe environment to practice that will not affect the production network. The user does not have to worry about testing scenarios that could bring down various devices, or the entire network. MIMIC can also aid in training new hires, because a virtual lab avoids buying expensive equipment. "MIMIC Virtual Lab provides valuable pre-deployment performance testing capability," said Rich Ptak, an analyst and President of Ptak Associates, Inc. "MIMIC Virtual Lab economically avoids the difficulties of simulating different environments with an insufficient number of test devices. MIMIC allows quick setup of a variety of pre- defined test environments while easily simulating the conditions encountered in a typical production network." MIMIC is already used in enterprises in the retail, finance, oil and aerospace industries. "We manage a very large mission critical network which increases our need to test applications thoroughly before deployment. With a limited test lab, that's not always easy," said Jeffrey Miller, Open Systems Engineer at a large financial institution. "MIMIC allows us to do extensive sandbox testing without a physical lab. With MIMIC, we can simulate complex scenarios and apply these to development tasks in a very timely manner. The user-friendly interface makes it very easy to create and manipulate multiple scenarios. By using MIMIC, we can develop new management applications with the confidence that they will work properly before going into production." MIMIC Virtual Lab Enterprise consists of multiple simulated networks of routers, switches and end systems. Some of the features include: - Lab with extensive free-form configuration; - Load multiple labs - Multiple pre-configured labs are included. You can load, modify or save each of them depending upon your own requirements; - Choose from many Lab Exercises for creating different network conditions; - Connect to each device using Network Management applications via SNMPv1, SNMPv2 and SNMPv3 and manage the virtual lab from anywhere on the network, just like a real lab; - Access the Cisco devices using Telnet and IOS from anywhere on the network and practice for Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) certifications; - MIB Browser to view MIB information for an individual device; - Update Wizard to notify and to update automatically when new labs and exercises are released; - Protocols supported - SNMPv1, SNMPv2, SNMPv3, TFTP, Telnet and Cisco IOS. Gambit simultaneously releases version 6.10 of its MIMIC Simulator suite. About Gambit Communications, Inc. Founded in 1995, Gambit Communications is a leader in network simulation tools that enhance the productivity of management software developers and enterprise users while lowering their costs. MIMIC Simulator and MIMIC Virtual Lab are a modular 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 250 customers includes: Goldman Sachs, BankOne, VISA, Shell, Safeway, Boeing, Computer Associates, Hewlett-Packard, AT&T, MCI, Cisco, Nortel, Alcatel, Marconi, Lucent, and Ericsson. For more information on Gambit and MIMIC, please visit www.gambitcomm.com. # # # MIMIC and Gambit Communications are registered trademarks of Gambit Communications, Inc. Cisco and IOS are registered trademarks of Cisco Systems. All other trademarks or service marks are the property of their respective owners. Questions/Comments:info@gambitcomm.com or call (603) 881-3500 Copyright © 2003 Gambit Communications, Inc. All rights reserved.