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OPNET provides streaming videos and slides from our popular Web Briefings to help our users learn about key product features, enhancement, and work flows. You must have an OPNET username and password to access these resources. (Contact your OPNET sales representative if you do not have a username and password, or complete the password request form.)

Web Briefings generally include live software demonstrations supported by presentation materials.

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Application Performance Management

Managing VoIP Performance

Watch this web briefing to learn about:

  • Proactively monitor voice call quality and resolve issues before they affect end-users
  • Easily troubleshoot the source of poor call quality with real-time, web-based dashboards for a quick resolution
  • Prioritize problem resolution and set meaningful SLA’s based on how call quality is affecting other applications on your network
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Real-time Web Transaction Performance Assurance

Watch this web briefing to learn about:

  • Manage the performance of actual web pages – not just individual HTTP requests
  • Automatically determine web page boundaries and group related pages
  • Track web page performance by username – not just IP address
  • Decrypt HTTPS traffic for in-depth monitoring and analysis
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Automatically Create Run-time Application Dependency Maps

Watch this web briefing to learn about:

  • Discover application and infrastructure components that comprise the ecosystem of an application
  • Identify the applications that depend on a particular server or network device before introducing changes
  • Understand the service impact of infrastructure events or outages
  • Identify all the affected components when migrating an application to the cloud
  • Determine application dependencies before virtualizing or consolidating servers
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Deep Application Component Monitoring for Java and .NET Applications

Watch this web briefing to learn about:

  • 24x7 monitoring and cross-domain analysis of key application components (application servers, databases, Web Services) – self-tuned for minimal overhead
  • Deep transaction tracing to identify bottlenecks in Java/.NET methods, database calls, and SQL statements
  • Always-on, integrated heap analysis and real-time memory leak detection to pinpoint the specific code-level source of memory leaks in production environments
  • Proactive identification of performance issues resulting from insufficient or misconfigured VMware provisioning
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Leveraging NetFlow to extend visibility across the enterprise

Watch this web briefing to learn how to:

  • Distributed, scalable NetFlow monitoring solution
  • View real-time, end-user experience data and network utilization information in a single view
  • One-minute granularity of NetFlow data Drill down from interfaces to applications, IPs, and IP conversations
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Do You Manage SharePoint – Or Does It Manage You?

Watch this web briefing to learn how to:

  • 24x7 high resolution monitoring of key application components
  • Correlation-based root cause analysis across thousands of web server, application server, database, and systems metrics
  • Detailed heap analysis and real-time memory leak detection
  • Deep transaction tracing to pinpoint specific ASP.NET pages, .NET methods, ADO calls, and SQL statements responsible for performance problems
  • Forensic ‘snapshots’ to automatically capture and archive in-depth data about key performance events
  • Integrated end user experience monitoring with OPNET AppResponse Xpert ™
  • No impact on applications monitored!
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Pinpoint End-User Experience Issues

Watch this web briefing to learn how to:

  • Continuously monitor all applications and users 24x7
  • Automatically identify response time violations and their root-source in real-time
  • Realize rapid ROI by making network upgrades in the right place
  • In-depth troubleshooting with over 700 decodes, including Citrix, Oracle, HTTP, file systems, VoIP, telepresence, and more
  • No impact on applications monitored!
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Network Performance Management

What's New in Sentinel 17.0

Watch this web briefing to learn how to:

  • Inventory reports covering hardware, operating systems, and configuration
  • Historical device and port availability reports
  • Capability to archive and audit “show” command output from a device
  • Enhanced device coverage with support for Cisco Nexus
  • Capability to audit end systems
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What's New in SP Guru 17.0

Watch this web briefing to learn how to:

  • Automatically create management level and detailed network capacity reports
  • Identify circuit upgrade dates based on traffic growth trends
  • Identify changing traffic patterns and atypical usage behaviors
  • Report on bandwidth usage and trends by CoS or application
  • Customize report contents to generate targeted information, reflect business hours, group objects by organizational or role-based hierarchy, setup thresholds etc.
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Know your network with a powerful, integrated solution
Watch this web briefing to learn how to:
  • Visualize real-time integrated network topology, configuration, traffic, and status in a single view
  • Generate accurate, comprehensive network diagrams
  • Audit network configurations for policy compliance and operational integrity
  • Automate capacity planning for complex, multi-layer networks

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Finally! Up-to-Date Network Diagrams at the Push-of-a-button!
Automatic Network Discovery and Diagramming with NetMapper™
OPNET’s NetMapper eliminates the time consuming and frustrating process of manually producing network diagrams. NetMapper automatically maintains an up-to-date, detailed model of the production network, and produces detailed, complete physical and logical network maps on demand.

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Network R&D

Realistic Application Modeling and Analysis for Network R&D
Introducing the AppTransaction Xpert™ Real Application Simulation Module
OPNET Modeler© is the tool preferred by network equipment manufacturers, defense organizations, and communication research organizations worldwide for network technology and protocol simulation. AppTransaction Xpert Real Application Simulation Module will extend the capabilities of OPNET Modeler with powerful and realistic application transaction modeling and analysis.

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Advanced Antenna Modeling and Visualization
Accelerating Network R&D for Wireless Communications
This webinar teaches you how to predict the performance of complex antenna systems; incorporate dynamic and customized antenna patterns into a network scenario; and visualize antenna location, orientation, and coverage in a rich, 3D environment.

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Accelerate WiMAX Equipment Development
OPNET's WiMAX Model includes powerful new capabilities
GUEST SPEAKER: Ali Koc, Senior Network Engineer, Intel Corporation
Mr. Koc describes Intel’s WiMAX research and the role played by OPNET’s WiMAX simulation capability.

This webinar teaches you how you can evaluate custom WiMAX scheduling algorithms for base stations and mobile devices; predict network performance for various MAC and PHY layer profiles; accurately predict real application performance leveraging a simulated WiMAX network infrastructure; leverage new features, including support for 802.16j (multi-hop relay), MIMO 2x2, and IPv6.

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Design Resilient HAIPE® Networks and Devices
Accurately and Quickly Simulate Devices and Networks
This webinar teaches you how to design fault tolerant and secure HAIPE-protected networks; predict the impact of HAIPE devices on network and application performance; leverage HAIPE efficiency mechanisms to optimize network performance; and make educated HAIPE purchase decisions by comparing the performance of different HAIPE versions.

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What's New in OPNET Modeler® 15.0
New capabilities for accelerating network R&D
OPNET Modeler is the de facto industry standard for network modeling and simulation and offers broad support for designing network devices, protocols, and technologies. The latest release of OPNET Modeler, 15.0, includes new must-have capabilities for wireless network R&D and planning. This webinar talks about: advanced antenna modeling interface to configure antenna position and orientation; visualization of antenna location, orientation, and coverage in a rich, 3D environment; enhancements to System-in-the-Loop including support for IPv6 and WLAN interfaces.

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Testing & Evaluating WiMAX Networks in Tactical Environments
Simulating WiMAX for Network-Centric Warfare
OPNET Modeler®, the de facto industry standard for network modeling and simulation, accelerates WiMAX network equipment design and planning. Modeler provides unmatched support for high-fidelity modeling of protocols and technologies, scalable simulation of wired and wireless networks, and detailed analysis of results. With defense agencies contemplating the use of WiMAX in tactical radios, it is essential to evaluate this commercial technology in ad hoc network scenarios. This webinar teaches you how to: quickly and thoroughly evaluate custom scheduling algorithms for WiMAX base and subscriber stations; predict the impact of encryption technologies such as HAIPE on WiMAX network performance; plan and analyze ad hoc WiMAX deployments using 802.16j technology; and visualize real application performance over a simulated WiMAX network infrastructure.

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Reduce Time-to-Market for LTE Solutions

Accurately and Quickly Simulate Devices and Networks using OPNET Modeler®

This webinar teaches you how with OPNET’s LTE solution you can quickly and thoroughly evaluate custom scheduling algorithms for LTE base and subscriber stations; optimize performance by leveraging LTE QoS policies; visualize real application performance over a simulated LTE network infrastructure.

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Testing Network Designs and Equipment without Expensive Lab Setups
Accelerating Network R&D with OPNET System-in-the-Loop
This 60-minute workshop webinar introduces the OPNET System-in-the-Loop (SITL) module. It includes a slide show presentation and a detailed demonstration showing how you can leverage SITL to test the performance of a new protocol or technology by combining simulation with real application traffic, improve hardware interoperability and conformance testing, and create a virtual training facility for devices and applications.

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University

Teaching and Research with OPNET: The Military Academy Perspective
Best Practice Approaches for Leveraging OPNET Modeler® Wireless Suite for Defense in the Classroom
The session introduces the use of OPNET Modeler Wireless Suite for Defense by military academies to support academic teaching and research. Featured speakers include Captain Robert Voigt of the United States Naval Academy and Dr. Alexander Bordetsky of the Naval Postgraduate School. This 60-minute video recording includes a demonstration of OPNET's 3D Network Visualizer (3DNV™).

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Teaching Protocol and Application Behavior with OPNET's ACE™ Analyst
Best Practice Approaches for Introducing ACE in the Classroom
The session introduces the use of ACE, to teach protocols such as HTTP, TCP, and IP, as well as to demonstrate the effect of network parameters on application behavior. The guest presenter, Instructor Yiannos Mylonas of the University of Cyprus, shares his experience using ACE in the classroom. This 60-minute video recording also includes a demonstration of ACE. .

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HOW TO: Leverage OPNET Software for Teaching
Best Practice Approaches for Introducing OPNET software in the Classroom
The session provides an overview of OPNET’s University Program and resources that are available to support teaching and research, including featured textbooks and lab manuals that leverage OPNET IT Guru® Academic Edition software.

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