| OPNET featured in Packet, Cisco Systems Users Magazine | |
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December , 2004 --Ensuring high availability is an imperative – and a challenge, given infrastructure complexity, rapid technology change, and pressure to contain staffing and operating costs. IT organizations face a growing “capability gap.” According to numerous industry studies this results in frequent device configuration problems, degraded performance, and ultimately downtime. OPNET provides solutions that ensure configuration integrity through advanced change validation and automated network configuration auditing.. |
| OPNET featured in MS&T Magazine | |
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November , 2004 --Communication networks and networked applications now play a crucial role in military training and operations. The company provides intelligent software solutions that directly tackle issues faced by network and IT professionals. Fiona Stoddart profiles this Bethesda, MD company... |
| OPNET: Can Bootstrapping Set The Stage for a Successful Future? | |
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November , 2004 --November, 2004; -- "The Butterfly Effect," a concept within Chaos theory, uses the example can a butterfly's wings flapping in Brazil cause a tornado in Texas? to make a point of how a seemingly innocuous initial random event can potentially cause devastating effects later. In a similar manner, but towards good purpose, can a decision made in 1986 to bootstrap OPNET's business, lead OPNET to ten straight years of profitable growth nine years later? We shall see.....full story... |
| Network-modelling tools, part 1 | |
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October 2004 -- Simple questions sometimes don't have simple answers. When questions like: "Can we increase the bandwidth to our regional offices?"; "Can we provide more redundancy for our critical links?"; and "Can we do this and reduce costs at the same time?" are asked of enterprise network executives, it becomes more difficult. Keeping the complex beast of the various network sections running efficiently at maximum bandwidth and minimum cost is a monumental task. |
| Network Modeling Tools | |
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October 18, 2004; --Simple questions sometimes don't have simple answers. When questions like: "Can we increase the bandwidth to our regional offices?"; "Can we provide more redundancy for our critical links?"; and "Can we do this and reduce costs at the same time?" are asked of enterprise network executives, it becomes more difficult. Keeping the complex beast of the various network sections running efficiently at maximum bandwidth and minimum cost is a monumental task. |
| Caught in a Crossfire | |
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October 16, 2004; --Network management is no longer the same old engineering feat of simply managing packets and configuring routers. Complex challenges, such as the integration of voice and data, keep CIOs and their IT organizations contemplating the next chess move necessary to adapt their networks to keep pace with evolving business requirements. Once again, users rely heavily on their IT colleagues as a support backbone to ensure that telephones ring and queries get processed. |
| The 200 Best Small Companies | |
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October 15, 2004; --Every year we're more particular about membership in this elite list. To qualify, candidates have to show a consistent pattern of positive growth during a five-year period, as well as over the last 12 months. We selected companies with sales in the $5 million to $750 million range ("small" by Forbes standards), net profit margins greater than 5% and share prices above $5 as of Oct. 1.. |
| 2004 Sustained Success Honor Roll | |
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October, 2004; -- Of all the software companies on the U. S. stock exchanges--NYSE, AMEX, NASDAQ--only 15 out of 573 in 2003 managed to achieve a record of five consecutive years or more of profitable growth. |
| Bridging WIN-T | |
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September, 2004; -- With the System Design Review (SDR) recently passed, the Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T) program is advancing steadily, as teams led by General Dynamics C4 Systems (GDC4S) and Lockheed Martin Mission Systems progress through a series of milestones on the way to a demonstration of partial capability in 2005. |
| Visualizing the Network | |
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September, 2004; -- As wireless data networks become an increasingly important part of military operations, battle planners need to be more aware of the potential advantages and limitations of this technology as they prepare for operations in the field. To fill this need, a leading software company has introduced a software module designed to give planners vivid, three-dimensional visual image of their wireless networks in action. The 3D Network Visualizer (3DNV), introduced by OPNET Technologies, a provider of COTS solutions for network modeling and simulation, enhances the value of the company’s simulations for mobile wireless environments. |
| OPNET Earns Elite Status in HP’s Enterprise Management Partner Program and Demonstrates Enhanced HP OpenView Integration | |
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August 2, 2004 --OPNET Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: OPNT), a leading provider of management software for networks and applications, is the first to announce enlistment as an Elite Business Partner in HP’s Enterprise Management Partner program, a category reserved for a select group of HP OpenView partners. Today’s announcement follows OPNET’s demonstration of enhanced integration with HP OpenView solutions at the HP Software Forum in June. |
| OPNET Optimises IT Governance | |
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July, 2004; -- One of the keys to implementing an effective IT Governance programme is to understand that it is not just about more effective management of IT assets, people, and processes, but also involves aligning these components with the strategic and operational goals of the organisation. In some areas, the methodology for doing this is readily evident – a good example being the evaluation, selection, and monitoring of IT projects using portfolio management techniques. Other domains, such as those of solving application and infrastructure problems, are perceived as more technical in nature, and whilst here the divide between IT and business still exists, the need to bridge this gap is even more important. |
| OPNET Ranked by Business 2.0 | |
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May, 2004; -- Lets say you put $100 into each of the companies on Business 2.0's first list of the 100 fastest-growing when it came out in October 2002. Today, 20 months later, that $10,000 investment would be worth almost $21,000, an annualized return of 60 percent. Sure beats working. But if you're thinking of treating the B2 100 as buy list, hang on a minute. Late 2002 was the bottom of the bear market in tech stocks. The entire sector has been on tear ever since--not just the companies on our list. |
| Don't Blame the Network | |
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May 24, 2004; -- It's all too easy for users to blame the infrastructure when their access to corporate servers is slow. This is such old hat that at a recent company meeting, the network professionals at apparel retailer Gap showed off their own tongue-in-cheek creation - a song called "Blame the darn network." In turn, the network folks often blame the application developers for building code that hogs bandwidth and makes everything else run like a dog. |
| OPNET Ranked in Washington Post's "Post 200" | |
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April 26, 2004; -- OPNET makes software that allows companies and government agencies to see what is happening on their data and voice networks, including computer simulations of traffic that lets them predict the performance of a network under different conditions. That lets them diagnose problems quickly, sometimes before they happen. |
| Predicting Disaster | |
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April 12, 2004; --For Mike Kennedy, the value of a capacity planning tool lies in its ability to predict the effect of a discrete event on future needs. Kennedy, vice president of the infrastructure performance management group at J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.'s data center in Hicksville, N.Y., faced such an event when his company acquired a credit card portfolio from San Francisco-based Providian Financial Corp. in 2002. |
| Interview with Alain Cohen (in French) | |
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March 19, 2004; --Franco-américain, Alain Cohen a fondé avec son frère, Marc, la société Opnet en 1986. Spécialisé dans l'édition de logiciels de modélisation et de simulation de réseaux, il compte parmi ses clients une quarantaine d'opérateurs (dont France Télécom), une centaine d'entreprises (dont Total), une centaine de constructeurs ainsi qu'une soixantaine d'administrations (qui sont essentiellement américaines). Cotée en Bourse depuis 2003, cette société a réalisé, au cours de l'année fiscale 2003, un chiffre d'affaires de l'ordre de 46,5 millions de dollars (44,7 millions en 2002) et un bénéfice de 2,7 millions de dollars (4,5 millions de dollars en 2002). Elle emploie environ trois cents personnes et a ouvert un bureau en France en 2000 |
| Concord Launches eHealth Ready Partner Program with OPNET as Charter Partner | |
| February 27, 2004; -- IT services firm Concord Communications Wednesday unveiled a formal alliance program designed to enable channel partners to extend the value of Concord's eHealth Suite end-to-end network management solution to customers. |
| Network World Reveals the Top-Performing Network Products | |
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February 23 , 2004; -- Network World, Inc., the leading Network IT media company, concluded over a year's worth of hands-on product testing with the selection of 14 enterprise network products that stand out as the best of the best. In its fifth year, the prestigious Network World Best of the Tests Award, is bestowed on top-performing products selected from a field of over 240 enterprise network products tested during the past 14 months. "These products are the network industry's stellar performers as they survived the rigorous, hands-on testing of at least one, and up to three of our expert testers," says Christine Burns, Network World Lab Alliance director |
| OPNET Ranked #1 by Investor's Business Daily | |
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business software sector is returning to health from its worst slump ever. Both vendors and analysts cite some upbeat signs that offer hope for a modest rebound in 2004 and beyond. |
| Configuration tools to ease management | |
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January 19 , 2004; -- A slew of vendors in the coming weeks will make their network configuration management tools available to corporate customers looking to automate the tedious and error-prone job of configuring switches, routers and other devices - and then tracking those changes. AlterPoint, Gold Wire Technology, Opnet and Voyence each deliver products that help document, store and monitor changes to network device configurations. Network configuration management products from these vendors and competitors such as Intelliden, Rendition Networks and Tripwire promise to reduce manual errors, ensure compliance with regulatory standards and secure network devices. |
| Simulation of a live IP network In French | |
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January 02, 2004; -- Le logiciel IT Guru, d'Opnet, permet de reproduire le fonctionnement d'un réseau étendu à partir de données réelles ou simulées.« IT Guru prend en compte plus de quatre cents protocoles ou applications pour simuler, par exemple, les temps de réponse à l'échelle d'un réseau d'entreprise » , explique Daniel Crowe, directeur des ventes en France pour le compte d'Opnet. L'éditeur américain de logiciels spécialisés dans la modélisation de protocoles pour opérateurs télécoms a développé des programmes adaptés à des entreprises de grande taille pour simuler le comportement d'un réseau. Son logiciel IT Guru, disponible sous Solaris ou NT, comporte neuf modules. |