OPNET 8.1 Products Ship to Customers Worldwide
-- OPNET sets new standards for Intelligent Network Management ---- Enterprises, service providers, equipment manufacturers, and government agencies to benefit --
BETHESDA, MD -- May 24, 2002 -- OPNET Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: OPNT), the leading provider of intelligent network management software, today announced that the 8.1 release of its award-winning software products has been shipped to customers worldwide.
OPNET Chairman & CEO, Marc Cohen, stated, "OPNET software embeds expert knowledge on how network devices, network protocols, applications and servers operate. This intelligence enables our customers to be far more effective in optimizing performance and availability of their networks and applications."
OPNET products deliver a rapid return on investment to a broad customer base, including corporate enterprises, government and defense agencies, network service providers, and network equipment manufacturers.
New Features in OPNET 8.1 include:
- Significant new troubleshooting, analysis, and prediction capabilities
for the Application Characterization Environment (ACE module).
The ACE module captures live application transactions and imports
information from leading network management products, including
Sniffer Technologies
- Enhanced support for importing live operational traffic flow
information from NetScout nGenius. OPNET IT Guru and SP Guru use
this information to optimize network capacity planning, network
resiliency, and application deployments
- Expanded rule suites for the NetDoctor module, enabling enterprises
and service providers to automate the tedious processes of device
configuration troubleshooting and change validation
- Significant new features across the entire protocol suite,
including: ATM, BGP, DOCSIS, EIGRP, IP, MPLS, OSPF, PNNI, TCP,
and Wireless LAN (802.11)
Availability
The following OPNET 8.1 products are currently available from OPNET: OPNET IT Guru, OPNET SP Guru, OPNET Modeler, OPNET Netbiz, and the OPNET Development Kit. OPNET 8.1 shipments have been sent to customers with current upgrade contracts.
About OPNET Technologies, Inc.
Founded in 1986, OPNET Technologies
is the pioneer and leading provider of Intelligent Network
Management Software. For more information about OPNET and
its products, visit www.opnet.com.
###
OPNET and OPNET Technologies, Inc. are trademarks of OPNET Technologies, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Statements in this press release that are not purely historical facts may constitute forward-looking statements as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. OPNET Technologies, Inc. ("OPNET") assumes no obligation to update statements. Forward-looking statements are predictions based upon information available to OPNET as of the date of this press release and involve risks and uncertainties; therefore, actual events or results may differ materially. For a discussion of risk factors, see OPNET's reports, including its most recent 10-Q and 10-K, filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission.
###
Note to editors: The word OPNET is spelled with all upper-case letters.
OPNET Media Contact:
Margarita Castillo
OPNET Technologies, Inc.
(240) 497-3000
Media@opnet.com
www.opnet.com
OPNET Investor Relations:
Mel Wesley
OPNET Technologies
(240) 497-3000
ir@opnet.com
www.opnet.com