OPNET Technologies
Vendor Profile - OPNET Technologies, Inc. offers management software for networks and applications in the United States, Australia, Belgium, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Among others, The company's products include ACE that enables application performance management through advanced analytics. The company serves corporate enterprises, government and defense agencies, network service providers, and network equipment manufacturers through direct sales force, subsidiaries, distributors, original equipment manufacturers, and resellers. OPNET Technologies was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland.
May 13, 2008
Alstom on OPNET
“I was skeptical at first, but I have to say that the [ACE Live] box definitely ‘does what it says on the tin.’ Its ability to quickly drill down to the cause of performance issues, its amazing ease of use, and the clarity of its presentation of so many useful metrics, have made it our primary tool for application performance management."-- Chris Reynolds, UK Network Manager, IT Centre UK, ALSTOM
Customer Profile - ALSTOM (formerly GEC-Alsthom) is a large French multinational conglomerate whose businesses are power generation, railway signaling; and manufacturing trains (e.g. the TGV and Eurostar as well as Citadis trams) and the world's largest ships (e.g. Normandie and the Queen Mary 2). In the years 2006/07, Alstom had annual sales of over €14 billion, and employed more than 69,000 people in over 70 countries. Its headquarters are located in Levallois-Perret, near Paris.
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May 12, 2008
OPNET @ Interop Vegas 2008
Paul Dietz is the AVP of Northwest Regional Enterprise Sales for OPNET Technologies.
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March 21, 2008
Intercontinental Hotels Group on OPNET
“ACE is easy enough to use that even a novice can leverage it to identify problems that would ordinarily require considerable expertise to uncover. Because of ACE every member of my team can make valuable contributions with half the effort.”-- Gary Abbott, Network Capacity Planner, Intercontinental Hotels Group
Customer Profile - With over 3,600 hotels in nearly 100 countries, Intercontinental Hotels Group (IHG) serves more than 120 million guests a year at their Intercontinental Hotels, and other hospitality brands such as Crowne Plaza, Holiday Inn and Candlewood Suites. The hotels are administered centrally from Atlanta, GA. IHG use OPNET regularly as part of an extensive application certification process, as well as for capacity planning and troubleshooting requirements.
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March 06, 2008
End-User Experience & Real-Time Network Monitoring (by Russell Rothstein)
Customers need an integrated approach to end-user experience monitoring and application performance management. Ideally, products must deliver an end-to-end solution that spans monitoring, measurement, and diagnosis. In addition, customers need detection of service level violations, which bridges seamlessly into uncovering the root-cause of application performance problems.
Moreover, solutions must provide complete visibility of all transactions and users across the enterprise, with detailed real-time and historical information about performance, utilization, route quality, ISP performance, and end-user response times. Finally, solutions must automatically summarize data into user-defined business groups for meaningful presentation of results.
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March 04, 2008
NetJets on OPNET
“Using Insights, which make the rich [ACE Live] metric set available to all skill levels, my less technically-sophisticated help-desk personnel can resolve a much higher percentage of network problems without kicking them upstairs. That leaves my high-level network engineers free to focus on ‘meatier’ projects that advance our bottom line.”-- Eric Bishop, Senior Network Engineer, NetJets
Customer Profile - NetJets Inc., formerly Executive Jet, Inc., was founded in 1964 as the first private business jet charter and aircraft management company. The NetJets program was created in 1986 by Richard Santulli, the Chairman and CEO of NetJets Inc. as the first fractional aircraft ownership program. In 1998, after being a NetJets customer for three years, Warren Buffett, Chairman & CEO of the Berkshire Hathaway company, acquired NetJets Inc.
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February 12, 2008
Crayola LLC on OPNET
"[OPNET ACE Live’s] extensive set of capabilities allows us to keep the network staff size small but still be proactive about network problems and line usage. We now know more about how the network is running, where problems are located, and we can do projections of future requirements."-- Oren Woodruff, LAN/WAN Integrator Information Solutions, Crayola LLC
Customer Profile - From its earliest beginnings, Crayola LLC has been a color company. Now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hallmark Cards, Crayola LLC came into being when cousins Edwin Binney and C. Harold Smith took over Edwin's father's pigment business in 1885. More than 115 years later, color—along with creativity, learning and most of all, fun—is the company's hallmark. The company, which employs 1,200 people worldwide, is most famous for its Crayola® products, which are sold in more than 80 countries from the island of Iceland to the tiny Central American nation of Belize. They are packaged in 12 languages: English, French, Dutch, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Danish, Finnish, Japanese, Swedish and Norwegian.
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OPNET Technologies Inc. recently acquired Network Physics and their NP2000 Application Performance Monitoring tools which has now become the ACE Live 2000. The following are customer testimonials on the NP2000. For more product information, please refer here.
October 17, 2007
Frontier Airlines on Network Physics
“But it Now! With NetSensory my staff is far more productive and spends far less time fire-fighting, so they have more time for the projects that advance our corporate objectives. We've got a better handle on our SLOS, can better demonstrate our contribution to the business, and just generally have better control over the network.”-- Geri Carolan, Director of IT Infrastructure, Frontier Airlines
Customer Profile - Currently in its 14th year of operations, Frontier Airlines is the second-largest jet service carrier at Denver International Airport, employing approximately 6,000 aviation professionals. With 60 aircraft and one of the youngest Airbus fleets in North America, Frontier offers 24 channels of DIRECTV® service in every seatback along with 33 inches of legroom in an all coach configuration. In conjunction with its regional jet fleet, operated by Horizon and Republic Airlines, Frontier offers routes linking its Denver hub to 61 destinations including 52 U.S. cities in 32 states spanning the nation from coast to coast, seven cities in Mexico and two cities in Canada.
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September 17, 2007
Swiss Post on Network Physics
“For Swiss Post, NetSensory has proved to be a superb troubleshooting tool that saves us a lot of time and effort. Its clarity of presentation has improved our relationship not only with our internal customers, but with our network provider as well.”-- Stephan Badertscher, IT Engineer, Information Technology, Swiss Post
Customer Profile - Swiss Post (French: La Poste Suisse, Italian: La Posta Svizzera, German: Die Schweizerische Post) is the postal service of Switzerland. It is a public company owned by the Swiss Confederation and is the country's second largest employer. Swiss Post is more than just a post office. The nearly 55,000 women and men of Swiss Post ensure the daily delivery of 13 million letters and half a million packages, making sure these arrive punctually in homes and businesses. Swiss Post handles mail, goods and logistics, financial services, and even passenger traffic — bus service in Switzerland. And Swiss quality knows no borders. Swiss Post International (SPI), a subsidiary of Swiss Post, is based at 27 locations in Europe, Asia and the USA. SPI offers a bulk mailing service for letters in Switzerland and abroad, and has also partnered internationally to deliver customs clearance, parcel post, courier and express services, ensuring that its customers have speedy access to a truly global distribution network.
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August 7, 2007
Club Med on Network Physics
“The most convincing points during the evaluation were how relevant NetSensory’s measurements were to our problem-solving needs, and the consistently quick response of the interface to data queries when drilling down to find the source of a problem. I was also impressed by how easy it was to use the NP-Director data aggregation appliance: it delivers a view of the global network that looks exactly like any of the local devices.”-- Xavier Albira, Network Engineer, Club Med
Customer Profile - Club Med (short for Club Méditerranée) is a French corporation of vacation resorts found in many parts of the world, usually in highly exotic locations. It is seen by many as having started the all-inclusive resort concept, which is now a popular vacationing style for people of all ages. The Club was started in 1950 by former Belgian water polo champion, Gérard Blitz. The first village opened on the Spanish island of Mallorca and the number of villages increased greatly under the leadership of Gilbert Trigano (Blitz's business partner), from 1963 to 1993, expanding far beyond the Mediterranean sea. As of January 2007, the Club operates 90 villages, in Europe, Africa, USA, The Caribbean, South America, Southern Asia, French Polynesia, and Australia.
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July 24, 2007
Samlink on Network Physics
“NetSensory is the most comprehensive yet easy-to-use application performance management tool we have seen. Equally important is its rapid time to value, which derives from its ability to greatly accelerate problem-solving, and reduce the number of IT personnel who need to be involved.”
-- Jussi Räsänen, System Specialist-Network, Oy Samlink Ab
Customer Profile - Oy Samlink Ab is a leading supplier of banking services, both online and on-premise, to banks, credit institutions, and investment service companies in Finland. The company provides IT solutions for all phases of financial operation: banking services, such as loans, savings, and card transactions; systems for on-line and self-service banking; and value-added services, such as data storage and reporting, accounting systems, and financial management services. Samlink’s client banks serve more than one million users in 460 branches, and over 500,000 on-line users. The company employs 280 people in six offices throughout Finland.
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