OPNET's extensive, diverse customer base includes some of the world's most advanced carriers, ISPs, cable operators and wireless service providers, who achieve significant return on investment (ROI) from their use of SP Guru Network Planner.

Reduce Time-To-Market for Next-Generation Network and Service Deployments
New service offerings such as VoIP, IPTV, and VPN-based services require service providers to migrate to next-generation network (NGN) technologies based on IP and MPLS. SP Guru Network Planner embeds a comprehensive understanding of protocol and device behavior, predicting the impact of new service and technology deployments and optimizing network designs. By evaluating different migration scenarios and their implications, service providers are able to take better-justified decisions and reduce the time-to-revenue of new services.

Maximize Return on Network Infrastructure Investments
Service provides maximize the return on existing network assets though SP Guru Network Planner's best-in-class capabilities for traffic engineering and capacity planning. SP Guru Network Planner automatically determines bandwidth requirements and explicit routes to optimize service levels, and proposes tactical routing changes to alleviate congestion points or plan for outages, minimizing configuration changes and associated risk.

Optimize Network Utilization and Performance
SP Guru Network Planner combines operational network data with precise offline analytics, providing detailed insight into routing behavior and bandwidth utilization. The predictive “what-if” environment pinpoints projected performance problems, and optimizes network designs taking into account bandwidth, reliability and QoS trade-offs. Using SP Guru Network Planner's advanced traffic engineering techniques, service providers are able to optimize overall network performance and reduce the risk of over-utilization.

Minimize Network Downtime and Lost Revenues
SP Guru Network Planner quickly assesses the resiliency and quality-of-service characteristics of a network design, based on comprehensive reports that identify risk such as configuration problems, unroutable traffic, congestion areas, network vulnerabilities, and service impact. In addition, SP Guru Network Planner suggests solutions to reduce network downtime, such as alternative routes, routing metric changes, and equipment upgrades.

Enhance Operational Efficiencies with Multi-Layer Network Planning
SP Guru Network Planner integrates with SP Guru Transport Planner to perform network analyses that encompass the entire protocol stack, including (D)WDM, SDH/SONET, Ethernet, MPLS, and IP technologies. This provides unique traffic engineering capabilities that optimize network efficiency, cost, and reliability across multiple layers.