HP and OPNET Accelerate Delivery of Mobile Services for Telefónica Móviles España
New integrated offering enhances configuration and performance management
PALO ALTO, Calif. and BETHESDA, Md., Jan.
11, 2005 – HP and OPNET Technologies,
Inc. (Nasdaq: OPNT) today announced that Telefónica Móviles
España, S.A. - the leading telecommunications operator
in the Spanish market - has selected a combined solution from
the companies to forecast the impact and accelerate the delivery
of new mobile services.
Telefónica Móviles will use HP OpenView operational
management solutions and OPNET's SP Guru software to rapidly design
and deploy advanced services over a new Multi-protocol Label Switching/Internet
Protocol network in Spain.
The companies also announced an expanded line of HP-certified
offerings that enhance configuration and performance management
capabilities of system and network resources. These expanded solutions
were showcased last month in Madrid at HP Software Universe, where
OPNET received the HP OpenView Solution Alliance Achiever's Award.
The award recognized OPNET for joint business success resulting
from its product suite integration with HP's Infrastructure Management
and Application Management Solutions.
"The availability of OPNET's enhanced HP-certified, multi-integration
offering is aimed at delivering tightly coupled design, troubleshooting and
management capabilities," said Todd DeLaughter, vice president and general
manager, Management Software Organization, HP.
"This type of high-caliber solution will help enable IT organizations
to improve the alignment of technical provisioning requirements
across systems, networks and applications to meet business demands."
Product integrations available from HP and OPNET include the following:
- System performance: For predictive capacity and performance planning, system workload data from HP OpenView Performance Agent data is imported into OPNET Guru products via HP OpenView Interconnect. This provides a smooth interface for capacity planning studies. The HP OpenView Interconnect interface is included with OPNET's new System Performance module for HP OpenView.
- Network configuration and performance: For network change management, HP OpenView Network Node Manager topology and event information is compatible with the OPNET product suite. OPNET's NetDoctor technology provides expert validation of proposed configuration changes within OPNET Guru products. With OPNET's new Sentinel product line, NetDoctor analyses are fully automated, enabling regular network integrity and security audits of production networks. HP OpenView Performance Insight data supports predictive network analyses using OPNET's Guru products to identify future capacity requirements during the infrastructure planning process.
- Application performance: For end-to-end application performance troubleshooting, HP OpenView GlancePlus server performance metrics feed diagnostics of multi-tier IP applications within OPNET's Application Characterization Environment (ACE). OPNET's ACE analyses can also be automatically activated by the HP OpenView Internet Services product, which monitors application service levels.
"Our multi-faceted integration with the HP
OpenView products is unique in scope," stated Marc Cohen, OPNET
CEO. "We take advantage of HP OpenView's rich data sources that
span network, system and application domains, and apply advanced analytics
to create workflows that automate problem solving. As a result, customers
can focus more on processes and business instead of tedious data collection
and manual troubleshooting."
About OPNET Technologies, Inc.
Founded in 1986, OPNET Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: OPNT) is a leading provider
of management software for networks and applications. For more information about
OPNET and its products, please visit http://www.opnet.com/.
About HP
HP is a technology solutions provider to consumers, businesses and institutions
globally. The company's offerings span IT infrastructure, global services, business
and home computing, and imaging and printing. For the four fiscal quarters ended
Oct. 31, 2004, HP revenue totaled $79.9 billion. More information about HP (NYSE,
Nasdaq: HPQ) is available at www.hp.com.
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