| Coast Guard uses OPNET for hard-to-pinpoint performance issues |
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August 19, 2009 — The team uses a variety of software to monitor performance. One application is OPNET ACE, from OPNET Technologies. OPNET ACE is used to capture baseline statistics for how much bandwidth the system is using. It also comes in handy for troubleshooting. These days more sophisticated tools are needed to understand what is going on with a network, said Russ Elsner, an associate vice president of OPNET. OPNET offers a range of what it calls application performance management to do the job of watching the traffic and filtering the results... |
| "Live" from SOA World: OPNET ensures effective SOA performance management |
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July 28, 2009 — Senior Vice President, Business Development & Global Channels at OPNET Technologies, speaks with conference chair Jeremy Geelan at SOA World 2009... |
| "Live" from Interop: TMC's Erik Linask speaks with Marc Cohen |
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June 1, 2009 — TMC's Erik Linask speaks with Marc Cohen, OPNET Chairman and CEO at Interop 2009. |
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OPNET - finger pointing raised to high art |
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May 20, 2009 — OPNET's Susan S. Cole, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development, and her colleagues Russ Elsner and Michelle Duffy, introduced the company's application performance management products, ACE Live, Panorama and ACE Analyst. The goals of their application performance management products are to monitor the environment, perform an automated triage to aid efforts to localize the problem and then to perform a root cause analysis (they call this "Forensics") allowing administrators to quickly make the world bright and sunny once again... |
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"Live" from Interop: OPNET and Riverbed Feature Integrated Solution for Enhanced Application Performance Management over the WAN
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May 19, 2009 — I spoke with Adam Foit of OPNET technology, an application performance management solution. They're partnering with Riverbed to offer a combined solution for both optimizing and troubleshooting your network. Using the OPNET solution you can see how much performance gain you're getting from Riverbed, plus, if you still have problems you can identify if they're related to your server, network, or something else... |
| Multi-Purpose Management Tools |
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April 8, 2009 — Network management technology isn't always considered the rock star of IT systems, but when money is tight, industry watchers argue many seemingly mundane tools can take the lead and offer myriad fixes to common problems. Russ Elsner, application performance management technology director at OPNET, says optimizing existing applications can go a long way toward saving cash... |
| Air Force team provides flight tests for military apps |
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March 5, 2009 — The Air Force, Army, Navy and Marine Corps all rely on command-and-control (C2) systems for situational awareness and communications with their units in the field and with one another. And they all rely on the Air ForceÍs 46th Test Wing to ensure that their applications operate properly in the field. The wing, based at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., is a technology development test team that evaluates air delivery weapons, navigation and guidance systems, and C2 systems... |
| U.S. Middle Market Outlook 2009: Navigating the Credit Crunch
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March 5, 2009 — Long considered a key driver of the U.S. economy, middle market companies entered 2009 eying thrift and discretion over expansion and growth. Facing the roughest economy in generations, these businesses are scaling back their forecasts and doing whatever it takes to remain vital during these extraordinary times... |
| OPNET Featured in VoIP Network Management Buyer's Guide |
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February 24, 2009 — OPNET Technologies suite of products are designed to simulate the performance of applications, provide end-user experience monitoring, and real-time network analytics. The OPNET software is available in modules, some of which can run into the tens of thousands of dollars, and require a week or more in class to learn how to use. But when you are migrating tens of thousands of end users to a VoIP network, it is comforting to know that there is some solid mathematics behind your design decisions... |
| Virtualization Adds A New Layer Of Complexity To APM |
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February 14, 2009 — Peco Karayanev, Web systems engineer at National Instruments, is using Opnet Technologies' Panorama agents to manage National Instruments' environment of several dozen virtual machines. Like many organizations, NI is working with virtualization in the development environment only, for its Java-based applications. There is still hesitancy to move to production, says Karayanev. The drive to start reclaiming data center space was a big driver as well as the speed to provision new environments. One of the big challenges NI faces is correctly sizing the physical environment for the appropriate load as well as processes to deal with the virtual machines. Panorama is helping NI figure that out... |
| Using Simulation to Design WiMAX Devices and Networks |
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January 2009 — WiMAX is a new standard for "last-mile" wireless technology that can deliver broadband connectivity anywhere, anytime, and for virtually any device. WiMAX equipment manufacturers include both established players (such as Intel, Samsung, Motorola, and NEC) and startups. Network operators are expected to adopt WiMAX rapidly to enable new mobile services such as multimedia streaming, videoconferencing, internet telephony, and location-based services... |