OPNET

OPNET Technologies, Inc.

Type	Formerly Public Company, NASDAQ:OPNT
Industry	Computer software, Computer hardware, Network and Application Management
Founded	1986
Headquarters	Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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.
Revenue	US$ 173 million (FY-12)
Net income	US$ 18 million (FY-12)
Number of employees	Approximately 700 (2012)
Website	www.opnet.com

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

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.

"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:

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.