OPNET and Riverbed Announce Integrated Solution for Enhanced Application Performance Management over the WAN
Offering combines WAN optimization and enhanced application visibility in a single appliance
BETHESDA, MD and SAN FRANCISCO, CA November 11, 2008 ––OPNET Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: OPNT), a leading provider of solutions for managing networks and applications, and Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD), the technology and market leader in wide-area data services (WDS), today announced that OPNET’s ACE Live™ will be offered on the Riverbed® Services Platform (RSP) by the end of calendar 2008. OPNET’s industry-leading software for end-user experience monitoring and real-time network analytics will run on the RSP in Riverbed Steelhead® appliances. By running ACE Live on Riverbed Services Platform (ACE Live on RSP), organizations can achieve enhanced application performance management in WAN-optimized environments, with no additional equipment at the branch office, enabling greater ROI on their capital investment.
The RSP is an enterprise-class platform that enables a drastic reduction in the branch office IT footprint by running up to five remote office third-party software modules--without the need for separate dedicated servers. OPNET’s ACE Live provides monitoring, measurement, and detection of application performance violations. It supports complete visibility and reporting of all transactions and users, with detailed real-time and historical information about end-user response times, utilization, route quality, and ISP performance. ACE Live on RSP allows organizations to make the most of their accelerated WAN environment by monitoring application response time to ensure end user performance meets business requirements. RSP customers will be able to continuously monitor end-to-end application performance over the WAN, automatically baseline performance and receive alarms when thresholds are violated, and quantify the bandwidth reduction realized from Steelhead appliance deployments. OPNET is the first company offering a monitoring solution via the RSP.
“OPNET is committed to delivering solutions that keep us at the forefront of innovation in end-to-end application performance management,” stated Alain Cohen, OPNET President and CTO. “Through our partnership with Riverbed, we are able to deliver a completely unique offering with the ACE Live on RSP, enabling the only single-box solution for application acceleration and performance management.”
“Riverbed is working closely with strategic partners, such as OPNET, to provide best-of-breed services to enterprises looking to consolidate their IT footprint at the branch office. Unlike alternatives, we’re providing customers with greater flexibility and intelligence by allowing the branch office partner software the ability to leverage the RiOS® acceleration pathway. This is a unique capability in our market,” said Alan Saldich, vice president of product management and alliances at Riverbed. “By working closely with OPNET to provide ACE Live on the RSP our customers will be able to take advantage of enhanced application visibility.”
RSP is the most flexible and scalable virtual platform in the WDS market. Customers are able to choose which functionality is important to them and deploy that functionality easily in a virtual environment. Whether a customer seeks enhanced network visibility, security, media services or other applications, they are able take control of their network to meet business needs and IT consolidation efforts.
ACE Live on RSP has undergone Riverbed’s rigorous testing and qualification process, and will be supported on models of the Riverbed Steelhead running RSP. It will be marketed by OPNET and Riverbed, and will be available for purchase from OPNET. This integrated solution offering builds on the companies’ joint partnership, which was announced on June 24, 2008 (“Riverbed and OPNET Partner to Deliver Enhanced Visibility into Application Performance over WANs”).
Availability
ACE Live on RSP will be available from OPNET Technologies by the end of calendar 2008
About OPNET Technologies, Inc.
Founded in 1986, OPNET Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:OPNT - News) is a leading provider of software for managing networks and applications. For more information about OPNET and its products, visit www.opnet.com.
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Steelhead Products
Riverbed WDS solutions enable organizations of all sizes to overcome a host of severe problems, including poor application performance and insufficient bandwidth at remote sites. By speeding the performance of applications between data centers, remote offices and mobile workers by five to 50 times and in some cases up to 100 times, the Riverbed award-winning Steelhead WDS products enable companies to consolidate IT, improve backup and replication processes to ensure data integrity, and improve staff productivity and collaboration. Steelhead products have been deployed in organizations ranging from the world’s largest corporations with offices around the globe to small companies with a couple of sites that are just miles apart. To learn more, view Riverbed’s demo: www.riverbed.com/pr/jack.
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Riverbed Technology is the technology and market leader in wide-area data services (WDS) solutions for companies worldwide. By enabling application performance over the wide area network (WAN) that is orders of magnitude faster than what users experience today, Riverbed is changing the way people work, and enabling a distributed workforce that can collaborate as if they were local. Additional information about Riverbed (Nasdaq: RVBD) is available at www.riverbed.com.
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