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Net income
  
US$ 18 million (FY-12)

Headquarters
  
Maryland, United States

Revenue
  
173 million USD (FY-12)

Parent organization
  
Hanger, Inc.

Website
  
www.opnet.com

Founded
  
1986

Ceased operations
  
August 20, 2013

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Type
  
Formerly Public Company, NASDAQ:OPNT

Industry
  
Computer software, Computer hardware, Network and Application Management

Key people
  
Marc A. Cohen, CEO & Chairman; Alain J. Cohen, CTO & President; Mel Wesley, CFO; Erika Durrington, SVP; Yev Gurevich, SVP; Todd Kaloudis, SVP; Joseph Lenz, SVP; PJ Malloy, SVP; Dennis McCoy, SVP; Alberto Morales, SVP; Carol Nakhuda, SVP; Pradeep Singh, SVP; Edward Sykes, SVP.

Number of employees
  
Approximately 700 (2012)

Motto
  
Application and Network Performance

Subsidiaries
  
OPNET Technologies GmbH

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OPNET Technologies, Inc. was a software business that provided performance management for computer networks and applications.

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The company was founded in 1986 and went public in 2000. In October 2012, OPNET was acquired by Riverbed Technology, for about $1 billion US dollars.

Prior to Riverbed, OPNET was headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland and had U.S. offices in Cary, North Carolina; Nashua, New Hampshire; Dallas, Texas; and Santa Clara, California. It had 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.

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Corporate history

"OPNET" was Alain Cohen's (co-founder, 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, CEO & Chairman) and classmate Steven Baraniuk, decided to commercialize the software. The company's first product was OPNET Modeler, a software tool for computer network modeling and simulation.

Since becoming a public company in August 2000, OPNET 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.
  • As an independent company, OPNET grew profitably throughout its history. SEC filings are available with further information about its IPO, annual reports, and quarterly reports.

    OPNET Solutions (prior to acquisition by Riverbed)

  • Application performance management, see AppTransaction Xpert in Comparison of packet analyzers
  • Network performance management
  • References

    OPNET Wikipedia