OPNET

OPNET Technologies, Inc.

Type| Formerly Public Company, 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;
Mel Wesley, CFO;
Erika Durrington, SVP;
Yev Gurevich, SVP;
Todd Kaloudis, SVP;
Joseph Lenz, SVP;
PJ Malloy, SVP;
Dennis McCoy, SVP;
Alberto Morales, SVP;
Carol Nakhuda, SVP;
Pradeep Singh, SVP;
Edward Sykes, SVP.
Revenue|  US$ 173 million (FY-12)

Net income

|  US$ 18 million (FY-12)

Number of employees

| Approximately 700 (2012)
Website| www.opnet.com

OPNET Technologies, Inc. was a software business that provided performance management for computer networks and applications.

The company was founded in 1986 and went public in 2000.[1] In October 2012, OPNET was acquired by Riverbed Technology, for about $1 billion US dollars.[2][3][4][5]

## Contents

* 1 Corporate history
* 2 OPNET Solutions (prior to acquisition by Riverbed)
* 3 Product status
* 4 Notes
* 5 External links

## Corporate history

"OPNET" was Alain Cohen's (co-founder, 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, CEO & Chairman) and classmate Steven Baraniuk, decided to commercialize the software. The company's first product was OPNET Modeler, a software tool for computer network modeling and simulation.

Since becoming a public company in August 2000, OPNET executed the following acquisitions:

* 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.
* August 2010: DSAuditor product line from Embarcadero Technologies
* May 2012: Clarus Systems, Inc.

As an independent company, OPNET grew profitably[6][7] throughout its history. SEC filings are available with further information about its IPO,[1] annual reports,[8] and quarterly reports.[9]

## OPNET Solutions (prior to acquisition by Riverbed)

* Application performance management, see AppTransaction Xpert in Comparison of packet analyzers
* Network performance management
* Network Simulator

## Product status

As of 2022, Riverbed discontinued sales of 'Riverbed Modeler', which was the new name for the former OPNET modeling software.[10]

## Notes

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 OPNET Technologies, Inc. Announces Initial Public Offering of 4.0 Million Shares of Common Stock at $13.00 Per Share
2. ↑ Martyn Williams, Network World. "Riverbed to acquire Opnet in $1B deal." Oct 30, 2012. Retrieved Dec 12, 2012.
3. ↑ Nathan Eddy, eWeek. "Riverbed Boosts APM Abilities With Opnet Acquisition." Oct 30, 2012. Retrieved Dec 12, 2012.
4. ↑ Jon Gold, Network World. "Riverbed's billion-dollar Opnet buy could pay off big, analysts say." Nov 1, 2012. Retrieved Dec 13, 2012.
5. ↑ Riverbed to Acquire OPNET Technologies, Inc. Oct 29, 2012. Retrieved Dec 13, 2012.
6. ↑ "OPNET Named to List of World's Most Successful Software Companies; Independent Industry Analyst Report Ranks OPNET as One of Seven Public Software Companies with Eleven or More Consecutive Years of Growth and Profitability | Business Wire" (Press release). Businesswire (Internet Archive). September 21, 2006. Archived from the original on 5 July 2017. Retrieved July 5, 2017.
7. ↑ "Honor Roll". 2009-01-06. http://www.capehornstrategies.com./honor_roll.htm.
8. ↑ "Form 10-K". https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1108924/000119312512263679/d308852d10k.htm.
9. ↑ "Form 10-Q". https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1108924/000119312512457833/d398587d10q.htm.
10. ↑ "Supportcenter". https://community.riverbed.com/s/question/0D50b000079ckAqCAI/where-can-i-install-the-opnet-it-guru-academic-edition.

## External links

* OPNET's website

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