# Presentation: 948951

## Accelerating Network Research & Development

## Agenda

**1:30 – 1:45 pm   ****	****Introduction to OPNET Technologies, Inc.**
**1:45 - 2:45 pm  ****	****Introduction to OPNET Modeler**
*	**Live Demonstration*
*	**Example Models*
**2:45 - 3:00 pm  ****	****Q & A**

## Corporate Profile

- Headquarters in Washington, DC.
- Spin-off from MIT.
- Rapidly growing, publicly traded
- (Nasdaq: OPNT).
- First commercial network performance prediction software in 1987.
- Developer of predictive network management solutions.

- © 2000 OPNET Technologies, Inc.  All rights reserved. OPNET and OPNET product names are trademarks of OPNET Technologies, Inc.

## Customers:  A Blue Chip List ( partial )

- _[Customers](file://Sales/Marketing/Events/Seminar%20Series/PHASE%20III/projection%20version/www1/spotlight/halloffame.html)__:  A Blue Chip List ( partial )_

- 3Com Corporation
- Advanced Micro Devices
- Alcatel
- Ascom
- BOEING
- CableLabs
- Cisco Systems
- Comsat
- E-Systems
- Ericsson
- Fore Systems
- Fujitsu
- GEC Marconi
- General Instruments
- GTE
- Hewlett Packard
- Hughes
- IBM
- Intel
- ITT
- Lockheed Martin
- LSI Logic
- Lucent Technologies
- Magnavox

- Matsushita
- Microsoft
- Motorola
- NEC
- NET
- Newbridge
- Nokia
- Nortel
- Orbital Sciences
- Philips
- Qualcomm
- Raytheon
- Rockwell
- Scientific Atlanta
- Siemens
- Telcordia
- Teledesic
- Telia
- Tellabs
- Texas Instruments
- Thomson
- Toshiba
- TRW

- AirTouch
- Ameritech
- AT&T
- Belgacom
- Bell Atlantic
- Bell Canada
- Bell South
- British Telecom
- Cable and Wireless
- Compuserve
- Deutsche Telecom
- Enron Communications
- France Telecom
- ITALTEL SpA
- Infonet
- Inmarsat

- Aerospatiale
- Abbott Labs
- Andersen Consulting
- Baker Hughes
- BOEING
- Canadian Space Agency
- Chrysler
- CVS
- Daimler Benz
- Dell Computers
- Deloitte & Touche
- DHL
- Direct TV
- Ernst & Young
- FAA
- Federal Reserve Bank
- IBM
- Infoworld
- Internal Revenue Service
- NASA
- National Semiconductor
- Oracle
- PriceWaterhouseCoopers
- RR Donnelly
- SAP
- Seattle Times
- Schlumberger

- Intelsat
- Korean Telecom
- McCaw Cellular
- MCI Worldcom
- Norwegian Telecom
- Pacific Bell
- Southwestern Bell
- Sprint
- SWIFT
- Swiss Telecom
- Telstra
- US West
- UUNET
- Vodafone, Ltd
- .

- Networking Technology*

- Service Provider / Carrier

- Enterprise

- * 60% wireless applications

## OPNET Products

- Virtual prototyping software that significantly boosts R&D productivity, improves product quality, and reduces time-to-market.  **Necessary for every developer ****of networking technology. De facto worldwide standard**.

- Maximize network up-time, optimize network and application performance, and minimize costs using easy-to-use predictive simulation and analysis technology. **Necessary for every ****medium-to-large company with a wide area network.**

**Accelerating Development of Next Generation Network Technology**

**Optimizing Network Infrastructures and Application Performance***** ***

- Rules-based network design for *intelligent* proposal automation and order entry. Linked to back-office configuration /provisioning using the web.  **Necessary as a front-end for service providers ****(e.g., CLECs) and network equipment vendors (e.g., Lucent) ****where the customer proposal includes a complete network solution**.**   **

**The *****Intelligent***** e-Business Solution for Networking Companies**

- © 2000 OPNET Technologies, Inc.  All rights reserved. OPNET and OPNET product names are trademarks of OPNET Technologies, Inc.

## Networking technology has become too complex for traditional analytical methods to yield accurate understanding of system behavior

## OPNET Modeler :  Accelerating Network R&D

***Provides Engineering Professionals****with a Network Technology *
*Development  Environment for designing communication protocols, equipment, networks and applications.*

## OPNET Modeler Benefits

**Boosting Network R&D Productivity**
**Improving Product Quality**
**Reducing Time To Market**

## OPNET Modeler Applied

**End-To-End Network Analysis**
**System Level Simulation for Network Devices **
**Protocol Development and Optimization**

## OPNET Modeler Applied :  End-To-End Network Analysis

**How many subscribers can be supported over a packet cable infrastructure?**
**How will an existing network react to the deployment of Voice over IP?**
**What are the Quality of Service effects of running voice and data services over a common network infrastructure?**

## OPNET Modeler Applied :  Systems Level Simulation

**Will a proposed packet scheduling algorithm allow us to meet Quality of Service design requirements?  **
**How should device queues be sized to minimize cost while meeting throughput specifications?   **
**What backplane access scheme will yield optimal system performance?    **

## OPNET Modeler Applied:  Protocol Development and Optimization

**How can we enhance admission control procedures to optimize backbone performance?    **
**Are commercial data protocols adequate for regulating the intercommunication of embedded systems on a mobile platform?  **
**How do standard wireless protocols need to evolve to efficiently support advanced data applications?  **

## OPNET Modeler Features

- Hierarchical Network Modeling
- Object-oriented Modeling
- Finite State Machine Modeling
- Total Openness
- Highly Efficient Simulation Engine
- Comprehensive Model Library
- Statistically generated or trace-based traffic sources
- Integrated Analysis, Animation, and Debugging Tools

## Case Study:  Test-Drive Your Design with Application Profiles

## Supported Platforms and hardware requirements
Unix (Sun, HP)
Windows NT, Windows 2000
Models portable across all platforms
External Tool Support
Augment OPNET’s interface with custom action buttons
Fully programmable
Can interact with external tools/programs
External Model Access (EMA)
API for programmatic model construction
Automatically export model descriptions
Graphics/Reports
Map editor
Icon editor (can read TIFF bitmaps)
Graphical bitmap output (PostScript/TIFF/EPSI)
Export to spreadsheets

- Unix (Sun, HP)
- Windows NT, Windows 2000
- Models portable across all platforms
**External Tool Support**
- Augment OPNET’s interface with custom action buttons
- Fully programmable
- Can interact with external tools/programs
**External Model Access (EMA)**
- API for programmatic model construction
- Automatically export model descriptions
**Graphics/Reports**
- Map editor
- Icon editor (can read TIFF bitmaps)
- Graphical bitmap output (PostScript/TIFF/EPSI)
- Export to spreadsheets

- Additional OPNET Features

**Interactive Simulation Tool and Debugger**
- Event-by-event resolution
- Set breakpoints and traces on events or objects
- View and modify objects and attributes
- Can be run in parallel with Animation Viewer
**Model Security**
- Protect your models with your own encryption keys
- Provides means letting others use models without allowing them to see the source code
**Convenient OPNET Licensing**
- Floating License for all users to share on the same IP network.  Download license keys via the Internet.
**Open Model Library**
- Models are fully documented
- Models are fully inspectable and changeable
- All source code is provided

## Value-Added Extensions 

- Application Characterization
- Radio
- Parallel Simulation
- Terrain Modeling
- High Level Architecture
- Multi-Vendor Import
- Expert Service Prediction
- Specialized Models

## Customer Care and Support Services

**http://www.opnet.com**
- Announcements
- Communicate with worldwide user group
**OPNETWORK**
- Annual User Conference
- Held in Washington, DC
**Technical Support**
- Available via telephone, fax, and e-mail
- 8 am to 8 pm, Monday through Friday (excluding holidays)

**Training Services - series of hands-on classes**
- OPNET Modeler Introduction
- Advanced OPNET Modeler
- Custom classes available
**Consulting - Modeling Services**
- Fixed Cost
- Time and Materials
**C4 (Client Consultation and Computing Center)**
- State-of-the-art computer resources
- OPNET Application Engineers available
- No charge to maintained commercial customers

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