Network Diagramming Channel Feature

Network Diagramming Solutions Provider OPNET Recognized for Solutions

By Rachel Ramsey
TMCnet Contributor

OPNET Technologies (News - Alert), a provider of solutions for application and network performance management, offers a variety of solutions that address application performance management, network diagramming and network research and development (R&D). And recently those efforts were noticed.

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) recently spearheaded a major effort to assess and certify the interoperability of defense communication systems and equipment, an initiative called the DoD Interoperability Communications Exercise (DICE). DICE is an efficient way to test emerging DoD technologies, allied communications initiatives, and realistic joint military communications training.

Its quest led it to OPNET, whose application performance management solutions ensure that applications will perform effectively in production, that systems have adequate capacity to support them, and that networks that deliver application functionality can meet service level objections.

OPNET’s network performance management solutions offer capabilities throughout the entire life cycle of network management-leveraging predictive planning and optimization, network audit and change validation, and rapid troubleshooting. Its network R&D solutions enable technology innovation and accelerate network protocol and device R&D, combining high-fidelity models with industry-leading scalable simulation technologies.

The DoD uses Network Warfare Simulation (NETWARS), the de-facto for military communication systems modeling, to model and analyze the real-world networks that currently support various ongoing U.S. operations globally. The DoD has selected NETWARS for its DICE simulations.

OPNET has been used by the DoD to enhance its NETWARS solution since 2003. The NETWARS environment was used by each participating organization in the DICE forum and enabled efficient collaboration during the interactive network design process.

“We rapidly built a representation of the DICE ’06 architecture in NETWARS to analyze ‘what if’ scenarios and adjust the network architecture accordingly,” said Master Sergeant George Purvis, telecommunications engineering chief, U.S. Air Force. “NETWARS empowers us to predict the impact of network changes in the most expeditious way.”

Other companies benefit from OPNET’s solution. Global Connectivity Services for Schulmberger Network & Infrastructure Solutions, a global technology services company with over 80,000 people in almost 100 countries, provides secure global IP infrastructure, information security, wireless and remote network connectivity and complete network managed services through its DeXa Suite of Services.

Schulmberger chose the OPNET network diagramming solution, SP Guru, to support its MPLS-based VPNs as well as its DeXa.Net global connectivity offering.

“The Schulmberger DeXa.Net SPN provides fast and more reliable connectivity for enterprises located anywhere in the world,” said Jean-Michel Rouylou, vice president of Schulmberger. “State-of-the-art technology implementation, including Multiprotocol Label Switching, provides a cost-effective service and enables traffic engineering, delivering bandwidth-on-demand to accommodate the changing needs of an organization.”