MOST COSTLY PROBLEMS SOLVED WITH OPNET
Winner: A team from General Dynamics working on the WIN-T Program
(Next generation battlefield communications network for the US Army)

WIN-T is estimated to cost over $7B to build. One example from this team's work was a series of simulations of 2 hours of combat communications traffic for 8,005 operational facilities in 267 command posts with 1,561 communication elements using tactical terrestrial relays, unmanned aerial relays, and 1,750 radio links. The simulations are used for design, planning, and risk reduction. This customer asked that we not share the individual team member names.

LARGEST NUMBER OF CUSTOM NETDOCTOR RULES USED REGULARLY
Winner: Greg Davis
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)

116 customized NetDoctor rules were created to validate the IRS's network against their latest established guidelines, standards, and procedures in an automated, easily repeatable process. NetDoctor is used regularly to ensure configuration standardization and security compliance throughout the IRS enterprise.

STRONGEST PANORAMA IMPLEMENTATION
Winner: Bob Earl
Currently employed at an information services company with approximately 10,000 employees.

Panorama played a crucial quality assurance role for two major applications. In one, Panorama provided essential feedback prior to deployment, resulting in a stable, high capacity web-based application that scales to support 15,000 users. In another, Panorama identified critical flaws in application design that resulted in the application not being deployed, saving millions of dollars in what would have been lost revenue and customer satisfaction problems. This customer asked that we not share his employer's name externally.

LARGEST NETWORK MODEL ANALYZED WITH FLOW ANALYSIS
Winner: Alberto Arto Penas
Telefonica

OPNET's Flow Analysis technology was used to analyze Telefonica's backbone, for the purpose of capacity planning and ensuring network resiliency. In one project, over 22,000 flows were analyzed in under 30 minutes, generating valuable capacity planning reports, including detailed information on predicted performance, EIGRP/IGRP/BGP/IS-IS/RIP/OSPF routing, IP forwarding tables, and link utilization. In another project, a comprehensive failure analysis was run over 8 hours, identifying issues with under-provisioned backup routes.

LARGEST WIRELESS NETWORK MODEL ANALYZED WITH DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION
Winner: Daryl Robinson
NASA Glenn Research Center

Daryl and his team produced a realistic simulation of the air traffic communications for 3 US cities (Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Detroit). The model included 111 Air Traffic Control ground stations, 32 airports, and 1,235 aircrafts flying realistic trajectories over a 24 hour period. They also introduced collision-less PCSMA to improve communications throughput and latency.

COOLEST OPTIMIZATION PROJECT
Winner: Yuri Aguiar
Currently employed at a major advertising and brand awareness company that services Fortune Global 500 clients.

Yuri shared several success stories with us that related to optimizing application performance with OPNET's ACE solution. After building a strong reputation using ACE to solve application performance mysteries with IT staff, application providers, ISPs, and co-location service staff, Yuri's team was able to solve a critical financial application performance problem merely by threatening to use ACE! When faced with this threat, the application provider took Yuri's complaints very seriously, re-built the application, and deployed an enhancement that performed better than ever. This customer asked that we not share his employer's name externally.

MOST ACE AGENTS DEPLOYED
Winner: "Tom"
Currently employed at Canadian financial services company.

Over a 3 year period, approximately 50,000 ACE capture agents were deployed, and used daily by IT operations and support staff for solving application performance problems. Recently, engineering and lab staff also began using ACE for pre-deployment planning. This customer asked that we not share his name or his employer's name externally.

MOST APPLICATIONS ANALYZED IN ONE YEAR WITH ACE
Winner: Brian Rossi
Currently employed at a top-ranking insurance company, with over 30,000 employees.

Team of 17 people use ACE exclusively to analyze applications prior to network deployment. Last year, over 340 applications were analyzed as part of the pre-deployment/test process. This customer asked that we not share his employer's name externally.

LARGEST SYSTEM CAPACITY PLANNING ANALYSIS
Winner: Terry Berinato
Currently employed at a healthcare provider that serves over 50 million customers.

Terry's team modeled about 70 key production systems, including IBM Risc H50 class servers and HP Wintel servers, in preparation for a seasonal spike in traffic. Instead of the expensive upgrade they were originally planning, the modeling proved that server reconfigurations and shifting workloads would satisfy performance requirements during the peak load period. The team's recommendations were implemented, upgrades and 12 new server purchases were avoided, and there were no problems during the seasonal spike. This customer asked that we not share his employer's name externally.

COOLEST HARDWARE-IN-THE-LOOP PROTOTYPE
Winner: Walter Whimpenny
BAE Systems

Walt and a team from BAE Systems demonstrated impressive hardware-in-the-loop technology at OPNETWORK 2005, in the 'High Performance Simulation for Defense and R&D' Exhibit.