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2007 Previous User Groups and Seminars


North America

OPNET User Group Meeting in Dallas, Texas
Thursday, December 13, 2007
10:00am -- 2:00pm CST

Location
The University of Texas at Dallas
800 W. Campbell Rd.
Richardson, TX 75083
Room 2.412, Engineering & Computer Science - South
Contact:

Joanne Owens, joanne.owens@utdallas.edu

972-883-6790
URL: http://www.utdallas.edu/

Agenda
10:00-10:15
Welcome
10:15-10:45
Nortel - Gheorghe Spiride - "GSM/UMTS VLR Subscriber Data Recovery Characterization using Simulation"
10:45-11:15
Rockwell Collins - Michael Zima - "Operationally Significant Discrete Event Simulation over a Distributed Architecture"
11:15-12:00
OPNET - "Advanced Debugging, Distributed Simulation, and WiMAX Modeling"
12:00-12:30
Q&A (lunch to be provided)
12:30-13:00
Rockwell Collins - Kevin Chen - "Experience with Using Modeler to Simulate Large Ad Hoc Networks"
13:00-13:45
Discussion
13:45-14:00
Closing remarks

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Austin, TX User Group Meeting

Date / Time

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007, 9:00 am-11:30 am CDT

Location

National Instruments
11500 North MoPac Expressway
Austin, TX 78759-3504
(512) 794-0100

Agenda
Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00 am - 9:30 am
OPNET Panorama: Overview
Jon Hodgson, Sr. Application Engineer, OPNET
9:30 am - 10:30am
User Case Study: National Instruments use of Panorama
Peco Karayanev, Senior Systems Engineer, National Instruments
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Open Forum Discussion
11:00 am - 11:30 am

MEETING TOPICS
Learn how others approach Application Performance Management to:

  • Prevent performance issues in production
  • Identify anomalies in performance measurements that accompany a problem
  • Correlate key measurements across tiers to detect cause-and-effect relationships
  • Learn how National Instruments is leveraging this approach

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HAIPE Training Conference and User Symposium 2007
OPNET will be hosting HAIPE Modeling and Simulation (M&S) training during the HAIPE User Conference. The
training session will cover HAIPE deployment and configuration with a focus on multicast in HAIPE protected
networks.

July 23 - 26, 2007 , 9:00am-12:00pm CDT

Location:,
Parc Fifty Five Hotel, San Francisco
55 Cyril Magnin Street
415-392-8000
San Francisco, CA 94102

Agenda
HAIPE Deployment and Configuration

  • Introduction to the modeling networks with HAIPE devices
  • Integrating HAIPEs within existing network architectures
  • Integration with existing routing protocols
  • Configuration of HAIPE devices within the model

Multicast in HAIPE Protected Networks

  • Overview of multicast: IGMP and PIM-SM
  • Overview of HAIPE proxy and host IGMP modes
  • Advanced HAIPE features for configuring multicast

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Dallas Fort Worth User Group Meeting 
Thursday, June 21st, 2007 , 8:00am-12:00pm CDT

JCPenney Corporate Headquarters, 6501 Legacy Dr. Plano, TX 75024

Share your OPNET product experience with your peers:

  • Have you used OPNET IT Sentinel® to audit your network for security, integrity, or survivability issues?  Would you like to share your experience?
  • Have you recently solved an application performance problem with ACE™, and would like to share your approach?
  • Would you like to hear about how retailers, banks, and other financial services firms are using IT Sentinel® to ensure compliance with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard?
  • Have you employed ACE™ to predict an application's performance prior to deployment, and you were "right on" with your assessment?

Agenda
Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:00am-9:00am CDT

ACE™ Application Profiling and IT Sentinel® Auditing: “Real World” Case Studies
9:00am-12:00pm CDT

Proposed Topics
IT Sentinel®

  • Present a report from IT Sentinel®  - discuss how proactive visibility into a particular issue avoided potential operation issues in the production network.
  • Describe your IT Sentinel® best practices, including tips and techniques for administration and reporting.
  • Hear from companies responsible for supporting credit card transactions – why do they use IT Sentinel® to check network compliance, rather than simply relying on device configuration auditing?

ACE™

  • Bring a trace and demonstrate how you went about troubleshooting a performance problem, or profiling the transaction to predict application performance.
  • Describe your ACE™ best practices, tips, and techniques.
  • Learn about OPNET's new ACE™ Forensic Agent Manager for centralized ACE™ agent and capture management.
Federal Civilian Users Group Meeting
Thursday, January 25, 2007
12:00pm - 4:00pm
Registration and lunch:
12:00PM - 1:00PM
Panel discussions and presentations: 1:00PM - 4:00PM
OPNET Headquarters
7255 Woodmont Ave.
Bethesda, MD 20814
5th floor


OBJECTIVE
This is an opportunity for the OPNET civilian user community to meet in an open forum to share ideas, experiences, and methodologies pertaining to the use of OPNET's software solutions within the federal environment.

TOPICS
  • Configuration Management: FISMA, NIST Compliance, Disaster Recovery Planning
  • Preparing for IPv6: OMB Guidance, Agency Experiences, Readiness Assessment
  • Best Practices: Presentations by Users

International

Frankfurt, Germany

Einladung Freies Technikseminar Sentinel® im IT Betrieb
13. Dezember 2007
10:00am - 4:00pm

Veranstaltungsort:
Ecos Office Center Frankfurt
Mainzer LandstraBe 27 - 31
60329 Frankfurt am Main
Tel. +49 69-274015-567
Fax. +49 69-274015-111

Der Workshop „Sentine® im IT-Betrieb" vermittelt das Wissen um den praktischen Einsatz der Sentinel® Technologie zum automatischen Durchführen von Netzwerk-Audits.

  • Importfunktionen für IT Sentinel® (Konfigurationen, Baselinedaten, Flowdaten)
  • Beschreibung der Logik für die regelbasierte Validierung der IT-Infrastruktur
  • Netzwerk Audits und Analysen mit Netdoctor™
  • Erstellung von Enterprise Custom Regeln für den internen Betrieb des Kunden
  • Erzeugung von Reports für die Dokumentation der Audits, wie Change-und Difference-Reports, Standard-Compliance Reports, Netzwerk Inventar Reports u.v.m.

Der Workshop richtet sich an leitende und technisch verantwortliche Mitarbeiter für die Implementierung von Management Prozessen im IT Betrieb.

Surrey, United Kingdom

Application Performance Management Seminar and Go-Kart Event

Date / Time

Thursday, October 25th, 2007, 13:30-18:30

Location

Sandown Race Course
Daytona Sandown Park
More Lane
Esher
Surrey
KT10 8AN
Tel: 0845 644 5502

Agenda
Registration and Coffee
13:30 - 14:00
Seminar - Application Performance Management
14:00 - 15:00
Break
15:00 - 15:15
Seminar - Live Demonstration and Discussion
15:15 - 16:00
OPNET Grand Prix
16:00 - 18:30

SEMINAR TOPICS
Engineer for Performance throughout the Application Lifecycle
Best Practices for Ensuring Application Performance

  • Effectively manage complex applications including SOA, J2EE, and more.
  • Predict, test, and optimize application performance before deployment
  • Accelerate problem resolution with in-depth analysis
  • Monitor system resources and application performance across all tiers of your application
  • Enable ITIL compliance

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Stuttgart, Germany

Freies Technikseminar
25. Oktober 2007 10:00 - 16:00

Veranstaltungsort:
Oasis Business Centres
Leitzstrasse 45
DE-70469 / Stuttgart

In  diesem Workshop lernen Sie:
 
Wie analysiere ich Client-Server Anwendungen durch

  • Das Aufsetzen einer verteilten Messinfrastruktur
  • Messung von Daten in verteilten und Multi-Tier-Umgebungen
  • Analyse von Anwendungs- und Netz-Performance-Problemen
  • Ermittlung der Root Cause von Performance-Issues

Der Workshop richtet sich an leitende und technisch verantwortliche Mitarbeiter für die Implementierung von Management Prozessen im IT Betrieb.

Buckinghamshire, UK

UK Technology Seminar and Golf Event 
Tuesday, August 7th, 2007 , 09:00 AM - 6:30 PM

Harlyford Golf Club
Harleyford Estate
Henley Road
Marlow on Thames
Buckinghamshire, SL7 2SP
Telephone: 01628 816161

Agenda

9:00am

Registration and Continental Breakfast

09:30am

Implementing Performance Engineering

Best Practices for Ensuring Application Performance

  • What is Performance Engineering, and why is it crucial for successful application performance management?
  • Benefits gained from Performance Engineering
  • Getting started
  • Application Network Readiness (ANR) Assessment in the application QA process
  • Panel discussion: implementing Performance Engineering

12:30pm

Luncheon

1:30pm

Golf (18 holes) team event

Düsseldorf, Germany

Einführung in OPNET ACE™ / ACE™ Live
Application Performance Realtime Monitoring und tracebasierte Post-Analyse
29. November 2007

Veranstaltungsort:
Regus Center Prinzenpark
Regus GmbH & Co. KG
Prinzenallee 7
40549 DÙsseldorf

In diesem Workshop lernen Sie:

Analyse von Client-Server Anwendungen durch
  • EinfÙhrung in Realtime-Application Monitoring
  • Performance Metriken
  • Fehlererkennung mit ACE™ Live
  • Organisation von Informationen fÙr das Unternehmen
  • Das Aufsetzen einer verteilten Messinfrastruktur
  • Messung von Daten in verteilten und Multi-Tier-Umgebungen
  • Analyse von Anwendungs- und Netz-Performance-Problemen
  • Ermittlung der Root Cause von Performance-Issues

Slough, United Kingdom

Planning and Analyzing VoIP Deployments in Enterprise Networks

Thursday, December 6th 2007, 9:00am - 2:30pm

Location
OPNET Technologies, Ltd
4th Floor, Thames Central
Hatfield Road
Slough
SL1 1QE
0870 603 8009

Agenda

Coffee and Registration
9:00am - 9:30am
Introduction to OPNET
9:30am - 9:45am
Introduction to VoIP
9:45am - 10:00am
Performing a VoIP Readiness Assessment
10:00am - 11:30am
Break
11:30am - 11:45am
Optimizing your network for VoIP
11:45am - 12:30pm
Voice traffic monitoring with ACELive
12:30pm - 1:30pm
Lunch
1:30pm - 2:30pm
Raffle - OPNET Goodies
2:30pm
Close

Meeting Topics  
A technology seminar regarding planning for VoIP

  • Plan new or incremental VoIP deployments
  • Predict voice service quality
  • Verify VoIP network survivability
  • Optimize network capacity and QoS configurations
  • Includes presentation and hands-on exercises Featuring OPNET IT Guru® Network Planner supervised by expert staff
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