GW Awarded $1.6 Million Software Grant From OPNET TECHNOLOGIES, INC., to Support Internet 2 Research
Grant will Support School of Business and Public
Management
Research and Classroom Activities
WASHINGTON -- December 6, 2002 —OPNET Technologies, Inc., a pioneer and leading provider of Intelligent Network Management software, has made a software and training grant to Professor Jerald Feinstein, at The George Washington University School of Business and Public Management (SBPM). The grant, valued at $1.6 million, will support Internet2 research and classroom activities. The work covered in this grant enables Professor Feinstein to continue research previously funded by Professor Erik Winslow, Chairman of the Management Science Department.
The grant includes licenses of OPNET's IT Guru product. It also includes training to support Professor Feinstein's research in developing virtual networking laboratories for conventional information systems courses as well as for those taught in a collaborative and distributed environment over Internet2. The tools will enable students to effectively translate theory into practice by designing, simulating, and testing their business network projects within a realistic environment, and using best practice tools commonly used in private and public sector organizations. "We are researching the use of these tools for use in Internet2 kinds of collaborative and distributed activities such as distributed meetings employing IP-based videoconferencing as well as distance learning applications where we envision developing distributed, virtual network design and simulation labs for the students to use," Professor Feinstein explains.
Todd Kaloudis, OPNET's vice president of business development and marketing, says, "More than 500 university groups worldwide use OPNET software across multiple disciplines including management information systems, electrical engineering, and computer science. This is the same software we provide to businesses around the world for planning production networks, and for optimizing the performance of networked applications. We are very pleased to contribute to Professor Feinstein's pioneering work."
GW is one of the early experimenters with Internet2. Professor Feinstein has conducted research initiatives with Harvard University on collaborative and distributed learning over next generation Internet links. Such experimentation will help develop higher education's and other industry's understanding of Internet2, and how the technology can be used to accelerate increases in productivity and efficiencies in supply-chains.
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