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| Type | Public (NASDAQ: OPNT) |
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| Founded | 1986 |
| Headquarters | Bethesda, Maryland, USA |
| Key people | Marc A. Cohen, CEO & Chairman Alain J. Cohen, CTO & President |
| Industry | Computer software, Computer hardware, Network and Application Management |
| Revenue | ▲ US$ 123 million (FY-09) |
| Net income | ▲ US$ 5 million (FY-09) |
| Employees | Approximately 600 (2008) |
| Website | www.opnet.com |
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.
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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.
See also
Notes
References
- http://www.hoovers.com/opnet/--ID__100392--/free-co-profile.xhtml
- http://opnet.com/corporate/fact_sheet.html
External links
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