OPNET Technologies, Inc. is a software business that provides performance analysis for computer networks and applications.

 

The company was founded in 1986 and went public in 2000. It is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland and has offices in Cary, North Carolina; Nashua, New Hampshire; Dallas, Texas; and Santa Clara, California. It has international offices in Slough, United Kingdom; Paris, France; Ghent, Belgium; Frankfurt, Germany; and Singapore with staff and consultants in multiple locations in Asia and Latin America.
 

In October 2012, OPNET was acquired by Riverbed, for about $1 billion US dollars.

 

Corporate history

"OPNET" was Alain Cohen's (co-founder and current CTO & President) graduate project for a networking course while he was at MIT. OPNET stood for Optimized Network Engineering Tools. Alain, along with brother Marc (co-founder and current CEO & Chairman) and classmate Steven Baraniuk, decided to commercialize the software. The company's first product was OPNET Modeler, a software tool for network modeling and simulation.

 

Since becoming a public company in August 2000, OPNET has executed the following acquisitions: 

• March 2001: NetMaker Division of Make Systems

• January 2002: WDM NetDesign B.V.B.A

• October 2004: Altaworks Corporation

• October 2007: substantially all of the assets of Network Physics, Inc. 

• August 2010: DSAuditor product line from Embarcadero Technologies 

• May 2012: Clarus Systems, Inc. 

 

OPNET solutions

OPNET products address:

• Application performance management

 

Competitors

Riverbed Cascade, NetScout, Fluke, NetQoS, Solarwinds