OPNET

OPNET
OPNET Technologies, Inc.
Type Public (NASDAQ: OPNT)
Industry Computer software, Computer hardware, Network and Application Management
Founded 1986
Headquarters Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Key people Marc A. Cohen, CEO & Chairman
Alain J. Cohen, CTO & President
Revenue increase US$ 126 million (FY-10)
Net income increase US$ 6 million (FY-10)
Employees Approximately 600 (2008)
Website www.opnet.com

OPNET Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: OPNT) is a software business that provides performance analysis for computer networks and applications.

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.

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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.

Since becoming a public company in August 2000, OPNET has executed the following acquisitions [2]:

  • 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.[3]
  • August 2010: DSAuditor product line from Embarcadero Technologies [4]

OPNET solutions

OPNET products address application performance management, network performance management, and network R&D.

Notes

  1. ^ OPNET Technologies, Inc. Announces Initial Public Offering of 4.0 Million Shares of Common Stock at $13.00 Per Share
  2. ^ OPNET Technologies, Inc. Investor Relations
  3. ^ OPNET Technologies, Inc. Acquires the Assets of Network Physics, Inc.
  4. ^ OPNET Acquires DSAuditor Product Line from Embarcadero Technologies

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