About Us

Welcome to Alternative Management Technology (AMT), a provider of OEM network management software components. Our mission is to help customers drive costs out of the product development process by providing them with enterprise-class NMS building-blocks.

"Recouping R&D investments has become difficult; it costs more to develop high quality NMS products than the market is willing to pay. We provide enterprise-class NMS building-bocks that enable our customers to drive costs out of the new product development process."
Robert Kostes , CEO/President, AMT

Our Network Ferret discovery and topology products are JAVA-based, functionally rich and industry proven. Our customers range from major network management vendors to software start-ups to factory automation suppliers.

Customers powered by AMT achieve dramatic returns, speeding new products to market, slashing development costs and gaining a competitive edge. With AMT, you build unparalleled software applications.

Robert Kostes has worked in the NMS field since graduating from Haverford college in 1987.  The Network Ferret discovery technology and concepts have been in development since the early 1990's.

Network Ferret supports these SNMP resources:

MIMIC The MIMIC Simulator from Gambit Communications
Westhawk The free Westhawk SNMP stack
SNMP Link SNMP resource site - product listings, RFCs, training and more
MIB Depot SNMP MIB resource. Standard MIBs and vendor MIBs