Network planners and operations engineers manage complex and constantly changing networks, and are responsible for the performance and uptime of business-critical services and applications. To face these challenges, commercial and government enterprises, service providers, and defense organizations increasingly rely on automated software solutions to:

• Accelerate new service and technology deployments using predictive planning
• Optimize network performance through traffic engineering and right-sizing of capacity
• Reduce the risk of downtime and misconfigurations via proactive change impact analysis
• Increase security and operational integrity with scheduled audits to pinpoint problems
• React to critical network issues using real-time network visualization and troubleshooting

OPNET's Network Planning, Engineering, and Operations portfolio contains a set of complementary solutions, leveraging OPNET's best-in-class analytics applied to an accurate, timely view of your network.

Network Planning: IT Guru Network Planner and SP Guru Network Planner provide predictive analysis of multi-vendor, multi-technology networks to optimize capacity and QoS, and plan ahead for network changes and outages. SP Guru Transport Planner automates planning of optical networks, and integrates with SP Guru Network Planner for multi-layer network design.

Configuration Auditing: IT Sentinel and SP Sentinel perform automated and systematic configuration audits, analyzing an up-to-date model of the production network to diagnose device misconfigurations, policy violations, inefficiencies, and security breaches.

Network Visualization: OPNET nCompass for Enterprises and OPNET nCompass for Service Providers provide real-time visualization of the production network, consolidating topology, traffic, and status information from multiple sources in a unified graphical view with targeted dashboards of key performance metrics.

Network Diagramming: NetMapper creates automated up-to-date Microsoft Visio® network diagrams, combining multiple logical and physical views of the network with detailed device configurations and topology information.