CACI Products Company Announces Enhancements to COMNET III Network Simulator.LA JOLLA La Jolla (lə hoi`yə), on the Pacific Ocean, S Calif., an uninc. district within the confines of San Diego; founded 1869. The beautiful ocean beaches, in particular La Jolla shores and Black's Beach, and sea-washed caves attract visitors and , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 29, 1999-- CACI CACI - A company developing and marketing SIMSCRIPT, MODSIM and other simulation software products. Telephone: +1 (619) 457-9681. Products Co., the leader in network performance prediction In computer science, performance prediction means to estimate the execution time or other performance factors (such as cache misses) of a program on a given computer. It is being widely used for computer architects to evaluate new computer designs, for compiler writers to explore and planning, today announced enhancements to its high-fidelity network simulation software, COMNET COMNET - A simulation tool from CACI for analysing wide-area voice or data networks, based on SIMSCRIPT. III. COMNET III version 2.1 facilitates detailed network analysis for network engineers enabling them to reduce risk, save money, and increase the quality of network designs. "CACI Products Company's enhancements to COMNET III emphasize our commitment of providing network engineers with solutions that are specific to their needs. While our other network performance products focus on IT managers who need timely information for making business decisions about their networks, COMNET III provides the level of detail that network designers and consultants require to reduce risk, maintain availability of critical data, and prevent other catastrophes that may occur without guaranteed access to the network," said CACI Products Co. Vice President of Product Marketing Chris LeBaron. "COMNET III 2.1 will make it even easier for these users to gain access to the scope of information they need to make the best decisions." "You can't exist in the corporate world without the speed and flexibility of communication. We have 200 remote offices nationwide, and all of them are predicated on the fact that business will be conducted electronically. If we lose the network, it's lost revenue. The alternative is that we spend more than we need to overengineer the network. It's a matter of being efficient," said Assistant Vice President of New York Life Insurance Company The New York Life Insurance Company (NYLIC) is the largest mutual life-insurance company in the United States, and one of the largest life insurers in the world.[3] Walter Sobryan. "We use COMNET III for long-term capacity planning, examining the behavior of new applications and protocols, such as http versus TCP/IP TCP/IP in full Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol Standard Internet communications protocols that allow digital computers to communicate over long distances. sessions, problem analysis, and pinpointing the source of persistent or degrading response times," said Sobryan. New features of COMNET III 2.1 will make it easier for users to assess network performance. One new feature of COMNET III 2.1, the Transaction Diagram, will provide a complete view of explicit foreground traffic sources, including times sent, average statistics, and transaction times to enable network managers to increase efficiency. This information can be viewed graphically in the Transaction Viewer which depicts traffic information by the length and thickness of an arrow and its start and end points from source to destination. With this feature, users can visualize transaction behaviors that may not be apparent from viewing textual output. Finding the overall cause of network transmission problems will also be facilitated with the help of COMNET III's new Software Diagram. The Software Diagram provides a high-level view of the transmission of messages and the path that the application takes from the its originating source to the message source, response source, until its final destination. Other new capabilities of COMNET III 2.1 include: the ability to model Gigabit Ethernet, Extended IGRP (Interior Gateway Routing Protocol) A proprietary routing protocol from Cisco that was developed in 1988 to overcome the shortcomings of RIP. IGRP takes bandwidth, latency, reliability and current traffic load into consideration. and OSPF (Open Shortest Path First) A routing protocol that determines the best path for routing IP traffic over a TCP/IP network based on distance between nodes and several quality parameters. routing strategies; the addition of CA Unicenter TNG TNG Training TNG The Next Generation TNG Tongue TNG The Newspaper Guild (Union) TNG Transitional National Government TNG Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (national facility of the Italian astronomical community) as an importable source of network information in addition to those network management tools are already supported, and the ability to interface with CACI Products Company's point to point and frame relay pricing module, COMNET PriceWizard. Online help and documentation has been enhanced, speeding model development and results analysis. Network engineers can search online documentation by subject area or access relevant help information, provided in each dialog box, as they build models and predict the future performance of their network. A sample model library is accessible online through COMNET III 2.1. Detailed information, including links to relevant white papers, are provided for these technology-specific models, that include ATM, circuit-switch, frame relay, Alcanet and others. Users can save their own models, complete with section-specific comments, for sharing over the Web. COMNET III 2.1 automatically creates a Web page and a master document that archives posted models. Comments are automatically updated by COMNET III 2.1 as information about the model changes. COMNET III 2.1 is available now from CACI Products Company and third-party resellers outside the U.S. A single license starts at $35,000. About COMNET III COMNET III is CACI Products Company's award winning, high-fidelity network simulation tool. By accurately predicting LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. , WAN, and enterprise network performance, COMNET III enables users to reduce risk by experimenting with diverse network alternatives before implementing their plans. COMNET III helps network developers: -- Simulate networks, including LAN, WAN, ATM, frame relay, point-to-point, ISDN ISDN in full Integrated Services Digital Network Digital telecommunications network that operates over standard copper telephone wires or other media. , SNA (Systems Network Architecture) IBM's mainframe network standards introduced in 1974. Originally a centralized architecture with a host computer controlling many terminals, enhancements, such as APPN and APPC (LU 6. , TCP/IP, POTS, FDDI (Fiber Distributed Data Interface) Often pronounced "fiddy," it was a LAN and MAN access method that had its heyday in the mid-1990s. FDDI was an ANSI standard token passing network that transmitted 100 Mbps over optical fiber up to 10 kilometers. and others -- Review network recommendations before implementing them -- Pinpoint bottlenecks and build recommendations. Also in CACI Product Company's suite of performance planning tools is COMNET Predictor, a scalable capacity planning solution designed to provide timely network performance planning data, and Application Profiler 2.0, a pre-deployment response time analyzer for ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. , Ecommerce and other applications. About CACI Products Company CACI Products Company is the leading provider of enterprise network performance prediction and planning solutions. The La Jolla, Calif.-based company has been offering software products ranging from object-oriented simulation languages to industry-specific application tools since 1962. CACI's products are used by more than 8,000 commercial, government and academic institutions worldwide. Specializing in performance prediction, monitoring and planning software, CACI provides innovative simulation software for network managers, service providers, integrators, and consultants who design, install, support, and/or manage complex networks. CACI Products Company is a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of CACI International Inc. More information is available on the Internet at http://www.caciproducts.com. COMNET III, COMNET Predictor, and Application Profiler 2.0 are trademarks of CACI Products Company. All other companies and products as they appear in this bulletin are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. |
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