Thursday 03. of June 2010 - New release available: 2.0.0-beta.3

Finally, a new version of NeSSi² is available for download.

Since the last release we were busy on NeSSi² related research projects (details on this will follow soon). Those projects required some fundamental changes to the simulation model of NeSSi² and are the reason for the long time between releases.

The main changes and new features in this release are:

• Revised network and simulation model. The core models are now independent of IP related features and can be used for any simulations that can be modeled with graphs.
• Improved project structured.
• New editors for standard concepts (profile, scenario, ...) in NeSSi².
• API simplifications, e.g. devices (nodes) are now created with special purpose editors, without any need for implementation of Java classes.
• Icons for nodes can be customized.

Tuesday 20. of October 2009 - NeSSi² user interface now available for Mac OS X (10.6.x)

In the last months we were busy with a new NeSSi² related project and are now in the progress to moving some of the results into a new NeSSi² release.

This new release will hopefully be finished in November or December 2009.

One change in this release is that it will be based on Eclipse 3.5 and allows us to create Mac OS X version of out user interface. For a lecture we created back-port of this for the currently released NeSSi². So our students already can work with NeSSi² and do not need to wait for the next release.

Tuesday 03. of March 2009 - New release avaiable: 2.0.0-beta.2.1

Unfortunately we missed some bugs during testing the new plug-in API and SQLite integration.

This bug fix release contains the following:

• Annotations used in developing own devices and application no longer require public visibility, if they do not directly sub-class the abstract classes provided in the API.
• Generation of identifiers for connections and network elements in rare cases duplicated identifiers, this should be fixed now.
• The handling of relative file names and absolute file names on Windows resulted in the creation of two SQLite files (one for the UI and one for the backend), instead of one shared file.

The bug fix is avaiable on our Download page.

If you have questions about NeSSi² or you need support using NeSSi², please contact us at info@nessi2.de.

Friday 27. of February 2009 - NeSSi² @ CeBIT 2009

Hall 9 hosts the future parc and the future life area. NeSSi² will be part of the technology corner in future life area.

The NeSSi² team will present a simulation that shows a DDoS attack that originates in home environments and attacks different targets in enterprise networks. NeSSi² will also be used to show how security applications can be used to fend off these attacks.

Of course we are more than happy to discuss and show any feature of NeSSi² your are interested in.

The NeSSi² team looks forward at meeting you at CeBIT 2009 in Hannover.

Tuesday 10. of February 2009 - New release available: 2.0.0-beta.2

The NeSSi² team is proud to announce the second public release of NeSSi².  Details on how to obtain NeSSi² can be found on our Download page.

 The main features of the 2.0.0-beta.2 release are:

• Improved plug-in development API.
• Support for SQLite databases.
• Various bug fixes and performance enhancements.

The release of 2.0.0-beta.3 is targeted for March/April.

If you have questions about NeSSi² or you need support using NeSSi², please contact us at info@nessi2.de.