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OPNET Technologies, Inc. - Network Management Software -
Category Directory
7255
Woodmont Ave.
Bethesda, Maryland 20814
(240) 497-3000
www.opnet.com
Sales
$56.5
million
Business Description
OPNET Technologies, Inc. (“OPNET”, “we” or “us”) is a provider of management
software for networks and applications. Our solutions address: application
performance troubleshooting; network configuration and security auditing;
network capacity and resiliency planning; application deployment planning;
and network technology research and development or R&D. Embedded in OPNET
software is knowledge about how network devices, network protocols,
applications and servers operate and interact. This intelligence enables
users in application development, network operations, engineering, planning,
and security functions to be more effective in optimizing performance and
availability of their networks and applications. We believe our software
solutions generate return on investment to a broad customer base, including
corporate enterprises, government and defense agencies, network service
providers, and network equipment manufacturers by empowering them to make
better use of resources, reduce operational problems and improve
competitiveness.
The
OPNET Solution and Products
OPNET software solutions directly address the intelligent application and
network management needs of enterprises, government and defense agencies,
service providers, and network equipment manufacturers. Our intelligent
application and network management solutions use a variety of advanced
technologies to support the assessment of network, application, and server
performance under a wide range of current and future operating conditions.
Our products include model libraries that permit the simulation and analysis
of major network technologies and communication protocols, such as
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol, or TCP/IP, IP-QoS, Voice
over IP, SONET, CDMA, Virtual Local Area Networks, or VLANs, Frame Relay,
data over cable, and ATM. We sell both off-the-shelf and customized products
that offer interfaces to third party network management solutions, including
those from Concord, Infovista, Network Associates, and Netscout. All of the
OPNET products share a significant amount of core software based on an open
architecture. Our product architecture enables us to create new products
more efficiently, to foster interoperability of our products, and to provide
interfaces to a wide range of external data sources including third party
management tools and network topology, traffic, and configuration
information.
OPNET
IT Guru
We began commercial distribution of OPNET IT Guru in August 1998. OPNET IT
Guru uses a variety of advanced technologies, including troubleshooting and
predictive simulation, to analyze many aspects of network behavior. IT Guru
enables our customers to identify current problems related to application
performance and network configurations, and also to predict the impact of
changes to their networks, applications, and servers under a wide range of
scenarios. OPNET IT Guru allows users to identify the root-cause of
end-to-end performance problems and to make comparisons among alternative
approaches to solving them. IT Guru’s predictive component supports managing
change within customers’ networks, such as adopting new technologies,
increasing capacity, and reorganizing assets. OPNET IT Guru also provides
detailed views of an application’s performance within a network. This
enables network managers and application deployment teams to understand the
impact of implementing a new application on existing applications, as well
as the ability of a network to support the resulting traffic. OPNET IT Guru
supports many popular communication protocols and networking technologies
that operate within wireline and wireless networks.
OPNET SP Guru
We began general commercial distribution of OPNET SP Guru in June 2001.
OPNET SP Guru enables service providers and very large enterprises to manage
networks cost-effectively and improve network efficiency. Its advanced
configuration troubleshooting and operational validation capabilities enable
network operators to identify problems sooner and reduce costly mistakes.
OPNET SP Guru uses our predictive modeling and diagnostic technology to
characterize and forecast many aspects of network behavior. In addition,
OPNET SP Guru provides sophisticated design and optimization capabilities
that enable service providers to automatically produce more efficient, less
costly network designs. Using OPNET SP Guru, network operators are able to
maintain a reliable infrastructure with high availability and superior
service quality, accelerate deployment of new services, differentiate their
services from those of competitors, reduce capital and operating costs, and
manage risk.
OPNET Modeler
OPNET Modeler was our first product and was introduced in 1987. OPNET
Modeler uses our device and protocol design environment, as well as our
predictive simulation technology, to enable our customers to build software
models of a broad range of network devices, communication protocols, and
applications, and to combine these models to run simulations in order to
predict network behavior and performance. These capabilities support the
design, modeling, and development of network equipment and protocols. OPNET
Modeler enables network equipment manufacturers to test product designs in a
wide variety of scenarios prior to manufacturing. Using OPNET Modeler,
network technology and equipment designers gain a better understanding of
design tradeoffs earlier in the product development process, reducing the
need for time-intensive and expensive hardware prototyping.
OPNET Netbiz and ODK
We began commercial distribution of OPNET Netbiz and ODK in August 1998.
OPNET Netbiz and ODK provide network equipment manufacturers, the U.S.
Department of Defense, and service providers with a platform for automating
network design, provisioning, proposals, and analyses. OPNET Netbiz and ODK
can incorporate customers’ proprietary algorithms and business policies to
automatically produce and optimize network configurations and designs. OPNET
Netbiz and ODK enable network equipment manufacturers to provide
vendor-specific planning solutions to their service provider customers, and
enable service providers to differentiate service offerings from
competitors, improve proposal quality, and accelerate business cycles.
OPNET WDM Guru
We began commercial distribution of OPNET WDM Guru in December 2001. This
product is an advanced network planning solution that enables service
providers and network equipment manufacturers to create cost-effective
optical networks. Its extensive, built-in network expertise provides
powerful capabilities for routing, grooming and dimensioning networks to
meet current and future traffic demands. Users can create and test different
“what-if” scenarios with varying topologies, traffic loads, and
configurations. OPNET WDM Guru’s reporting features allows users to compare
the results of different scenarios, and thereby determine the most
cost-effective designs to meet future demands.
OPNET VNE Server
We began commercial distribution of OPNET VNE Server in June 2002. This is
an on-line continuously operating software product that maintains a valid
comprehensive view of the network, including infrastructure, configuration
and performance data. It merges and validates multiple sources of
information into a cohesive model for problem resolution, problem
prevention, and network planning. OPNET VNE Server is also used as a front
end for OPNET IT Guru, OPNET SP Guru, and OPNET Modeler.
OPNET Modules
We develop and sell a variety of software modules that provide enhanced
functionality to our intelligent application and network management software
products. Currently available OPNET modules include:
• Application Characterization Environment (“ACE”), for analyzing,
diagnosing, and simulating the performance of applications;
• ACE Decode Module, for enhancing ACE’s visualizations and diagnoses using
a comprehensive application and protocol decode engine;
• Expert Service Prediction, for the definition and compliance testing of
service level agreements;
• High-Level Architecture, to support building and running a federation of
many simulators, each modeling some aspect of a composite system;
• Flow Analysis, for determining the route taken by each circuit or traffic
flow, as well as the resulting traffic loads on links, and investigating the
impact of failure in selected devices or links - (This module has two
versions: the Service Provider version and the Enterprise version);
• Multi-Vendor Import, for importing network infrastructure and traffic
information from other network management software applications;
• NetDoctor, for automated auditing and validation of network, protocol and
security configurations; and
• Wireless, for modeling wireless networks and the effects of terrain on
those networks.
OPNET Model Libraries
The model libraries are used by OPNET IT Guru, OPNET SP Guru, and OPNET
Modeler to simulate and analyze major networking technologies and
communication protocols. These libraries provide the building blocks used to
generate models of networks. A network model consists of software objects
that correspond to the devices, computers, and links that constitute the
actual network of interest. The behavior of these objects is controlled by
models of devices, computers, applications, communication protocols, and
links. OPNET IT Guru, OPNET SP Guru, and OPNET Modeler include extensive
libraries of popular and emerging networking technologies and communication
protocols, such as TCP/IP, hypertext transfer protocol, or HTTP, Open
Shortest Path First routing, or OSPF, Asynchronous Transfer Mode, or ATM,
frame relay, IP-QoS, and 802.11, or Wi-Fi. Some of our model libraries are
included in our base products and others are available for an additional
fee.
Customers
Our customers include:
• large and medium-sized enterprises that rely on networks to conduct
business;
• service providers, including telecommunications carriers and Internet
Service Providers, or ISPs;
• network equipment manufacturers; and
• government agencies.
Our software license agreements provide our customers with perpetual and
annual licenses for use by a specified number of concurrent users.
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