Customer : RAD Data Communications Application Name: RADview Network Management System
Business Challenge
RAD Data Communications is a leading manufacturer of network access
equipment for data communications and telecommunications applications.
RAD offers an impressive array of access product solutions to serve
the requirements of service providers, carriers and enterprises.
In addition, RAD offers an integrated network and system management
solution to supervise, monitor and provision networks that vary
in size and product. RAD wanted this Network Management System,
called RADview, to be a scalable one: affordable for small installations,
yet flexible to accommodate the network administrator's future needs
regarding size and high-end network management capabilities such
as fault, performance, configuration, security, and auto-discovery
of devices.
The above-mentioned requirements called for intensive testing of
RADview in realistic and peak-load environments. The testing required
to validate the customers' scalability needs was a challenge - a
unique test bed for scalability was needed to be built with various
types of agents in the devices and their different versions.
Solution
When RAD needed assurance of software scalability, they turned
to AdventNet SNMP Agent Simulation Toolkit - a tool that could create
a virtual network environment with SNMP, TFTP, FTP manageable devices,
on a single station.
"Key reasons for selecting AdventNet SNMP Agent Simulation
Toolkit were the combination of reasonable price; fulfilling of
all RAD requirements from the simulator; tight, committed, direct,
and professional technical support; being a product of a well known
and established software vendor, AdventNet," said Ziv Gadi,
Director of R&D - System Test.
RAD requirements for SNMP Network Simulator were concentrated on
the mass-of-nodes abilities. The simulation environment was created
to address the following key requirements:
Ability to simulate thousands of Agents at the same time.
Ability to simulate real 'big' net in terms of Polling mechanism.
Ability to simulate real loaded net in terms of SNMP Traps.
Ability to work with multiple users at the same time.
Ability to transfer file using TFTP application from and to
the agent.
The basic simulator requirements, such as ability to send traps
to the tested network system, ability to fully record a live agent,
ability to configure the agent MIB database, being user friendly,
and consuming reasonable disk space, were also needed.
AdventNet SNMP Agent Simulation Toolkit's Network Simulator offered
an integrated network simulation environment with intuitive GUIs
that fulfilled all the above-mentioned requirements.
Key Benefits
The following are the key benefits that AdventNet SNMP Agent Simulation
Toolkit offered.
High Quality Management Application
The ability of the network simulator to simulate a large network
of 10,000+ agents enabled RAD to test and 'explore' the boundaries
of its NMS applications. Developers at RAD used SNMP Agent Simulation
Toolkit's Recording Wizard to "record" real SNMP devices.
Simulation scenarios were created with 1000's of devices - just
like a customer's enterprise - and the claim of managing 10,000
devices was substantiated.
In addition to scalability testing, Simulation Toolkit's Network
Simulator was used to test the various features of the management
application when working with large network, test the polling
mechanism, test RAD's TFTP applications under a load of large
network.
Cost-efficiency
RAD attributes huge cost savings to AdventNet SNMP Agent Simulation
Toolkit. The entire cost of building a physical scalability lab
was avoided. Developers at RAD were able to focus on the management
application's functionality, and ensure that it worked to specification
and was of the highest quality. AdventNet Simulation Toolkit measured
over other competing products especially regarding its technical
support and price.
Reduced "time-to-market"
The development and testing efforts involved in building a comprehensive,
scalable, and rugged NMS application was substantially reduced
with Simulation Toolkit's Network Simulator. With SNMP Agent Simulation
Toolkit, testing was faster and gave higher confidence.
"AdventNet has a winning formula in the form of a good
and cost-effective application - the AdventNet Network Simulator,
backed up by a professional personnel"
Ziv Gadi, Director of R&D - System Test.
"Throughout the evaluation period, we received an effective
support - fast and to the point, aimed at solving the specific requirements
which were in the interest of RAD Data Communications"
Weinberger Yaron, NMS Alpha Manager.
A typical view of RADview application, that enables Map view (the
icons and their status), zooming inside a node, and 'inside' its
components down to port level, and a system oriented view, for example,
device's Time-Slots Assignment matrix.
About RAD Data Communications
Established in 1981, privately owned RAD Data Communications has
achieved international recognition as a major manufacturer of high
quality access equipment for data communications and telecommunications
applications. These solutions serve the data and voice access requirements
of service providers, incumbent and new carriers, and enterprise
networks, by reducing infrastructure investment costs while boosting
competitiveness and profitability.
RAD is a member of the RAD Group of companies, a world leader in
networking and internetworking product solutions. For more information
visit www.rad.com
About AdventNet
Enabling Management Your Way™
AdventNet provides affordable software for management and provisioning
of complex networks, systems, and IT applications. With a broad
product portfolio and an active customer base ranging from enterprises,
equipment vendors, and service providers, AdventNet has emerged
as a very affordable and high-quality alternative to expensive software
that is common in this industry.
AdventNet is headquartered in Pleasanton, CA with offices in NJ,
NH, India, UK, China and Japan. It has a well-trained partner base
around the globe and thousands of customers world-wide. For more
information call 925-924-9500 or visit our web site at: www.adventnet.com
