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OPNET Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: OPNT) provides network
and application management software and hardware, as well as
associated services.
The company was founded in 1986 and went public in 2000 [1]. It is
headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland and has offices
in Cary, North Carolina; Nashua, New Hampshire; Dallas, Texas; and
Santa Clara, California. It has international offices in Slough,
United Kingdom; Paris, France; Ghent, Belgium; Frankfurt, Germany;
and Singapore with staff and consultants in multiple locations in
Asia and Latin America. Representative customers include Capital
One, Cox Communications, CVS, France Telecom, GEICO Insurance,
Merck, NBC Universal, and Oracle.
Corporate
history
"OPNET" was Alain Cohen's (co-founder and current CTO &
President) graduate project for a networking course while he was at
MIT. OPNET stood
for Optimized Network Engineering Tools. Alain along with brother
Marc (co-founder and current CEO & Chairman) and classmate
Steven Baraniuk decided to commercialize the software. The
company's first product was OPNET Modeler, a software tool for
network modeling and simulation. It has since diversified to
provide a range of solutions for network and application
performance management.
Since becoming a public company in August 2000, OPNET has
executed the following acquisitions [2], [3]:
- March 2001: NetMaker Division of Make Systems
- January 2002: WDM NetDesign B.V.B.A
- October 2004: Altaworks Corporation
- October 2007: substantially all of the assets of Network
Physics, Inc.
OPNET
solutions
OPNET solutions address application performance
management; network planning, engineering, and operations; and
network R&D.
- ACE Live, ACE Analyst, and Panorama are OPNET's application
performance management (APM) solutions. They are used for
performance monitoring and troubleshooting throughout the
application lifecycle to ensure compliance with application
response-time SLAs.
- OPNET solutions for Network engineering, operations, and planning include the
following
- IT Guru Network Planner helps enterprises plan their network
for new applications or technologies.
- SP Guru Network Planner and SP Guru Transport Planner optimize
service provider network designs for capacity, cost, QoS, and
survivability.
- Sentinel is OPNET's network configuration auditing solution and
it is used to ensure network integrity, security, and policy
compliance.
- NetMapper complements OPNET's Sentinel and Guru solutions by
automatically creating content-rich network diagrams in Microsoft
Visio format.
- OPNET nCompass, a software solution for the NOC, enables
operators to visualize real-time network topology, traffic, events,
and status in a single view.
- OPNET Modeler, a network modeling and simulation software
solution, is one of OPNET's flagship solutions and also its
oldest product.
OPNETWORK
OPNETWORK is OPNET's annual user conference. The first edition
of OPNETWORK was in 1997. OPNETWORK 2007 had over 750 hours of
classes and more than 2000 attendees from 30 countries. OPNETWORK
2008 was held in Washington D.C. from August 25 - 29, 2008
at the Ronald Reagan Building.
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