OPNET Announces Record Attendance and Industry Participation at OPNETWORK 2003
BETHESDA, MD– August 26, 2003 --OPNET Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: OPNT), a leading provider of management software for networks and applications, today announced record attendance and industry participation in OPNETWORK 2003, OPNET's annual technology conference.
OPNETWORK 2003 is being held this week in Washington DC at the Ronald Reagan building. By the end of the first day of the weeklong conference, over 1,200 people from corporate enterprises, government and defense agencies, service providers, and network R&D organizations had registered for the conference.
Conference attendees will have the opportunity to meet with OPNET's alliance partners in the OPNETWORK Partner Pavilion on Wednesday, August 27th. OPNET leverages data, technology, and real-time events from Alliance Partner products to enable application troubleshooting, network configuration auditing, network capacity and resiliency planning, application deployment planning, systems capacity planning, and network technology R&D. Partner Pavilion exhibitors are:
- Analytical Graphics
- Alion Science and Technology
- BAE SYSTEMS
- Concord Communications
- HP
- InfoVista
- MAK Technologies
- Micromuse
- NetScout Systems
- Network Associates
HP and NetScout Systems are premier event sponsors. IEEE Communications Magazine is sponsoring the "Best Technical Paper" award. Showcases displayed at the conference highlight OPNET's broad integration with third party solutions, including many new integrations with technologies from: BMC, Cisco, Citrix, Extreme, Foundry, IBM, and Nortel, in addition to products from Partner Pavilion exhibitors.
Keynote Speakers include:
- Monday: Eric K. Mize, Director, Distributed Development & Performance Engineering, Bank One Corporation
- Tuesday: William Campbell, formerly Lieutenant General and CIO of the US Army (Retired), now Vice President, C4I Systems Integration, BAE Systems
- Wednesday: James Thompson, Network Consulting Engineer, Cisco Advanced Services
- Thursday:Randy Carlson, Vice President, Enterprise Performance Assurance, State Street Corporation
Featured Presenters during the week include:
- Marc Cohen, OPNET CEO, and Alain Cohen, OPNET President and CTO, will welcome attendees
- Deb Curtis, Research Director at Gartner Group, will present "Keeping the Network Working for Business"
- Gary Warren, Chief Scientist at SAIC, will discuss "Scalable Network Modeling and Simulation for the R&D Community"
- Allan Kolber, most recently the Senior Enterprise Architectural Engineer for the US Customs Service Modernization Program, will address "Planning and Validating Enterprise Architectures" for commercial and government environments
- Bill Alderson, Executive Net Analyst at Pine Mountain Group, will share "The Top 10 Network Problems, Proactive Mitigation" and "Keys to Managing Today's Enterprise Systems"
- Dr. Dimitri Bertsekas, McAfee Professor of Engineering at M.I.T., will lecture on "Traffic Behavior and Queuing in a QoS Environment"
"We are fortunate to have such an exceptional group of speakers, alliance partners, and customers contribute to OPNETWORK 2003," stated Marc Cohen, Chairman and CEO of OPNET. "The exchange of information that takes place in this forum leads to better solutions, shorter learning curves, and accelerated value for everyone involved."
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