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 ; emmanuel owusu amponsah svp . revenue us 173 million fy 12 net income us 18 million fy 12 number of employees approximately 700 2012 slogan application and network performance 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 . 1 in october 2012 opnet was acquired by riverbed technology for about 1 billion us dollars . 2 3 4 5 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 . contents 1 corporate history 2 opnet solutions prior to acquisition by riverbed 3 notes 4 external links corporate history edit 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 6 throughout its history . sec filings are available with further information about its ipo 1 annual reports 7 and quarterly reports . 8 opnet solutions prior to acquisition by riverbed edit application performance management see apptransaction xpert in comparison of packet analyzers network performance management notes edit a b opnet technologies inc. announces initial public offering of 4.0 million shares of common stock at 13.00 per share martyn williams network world . riverbed to acquire opnet in 1b deal . oct 30 2012 . retrieved dec 12 2012 . nathan eddy eweek . riverbed boosts apm abilities with opnet acquisition . oct 30 2012 . retrieved dec 12 2012 . jon gold network world . riverbed s billion dollar opnet buy could pay off big analysts say . nov 1 2012 . retrieved dec 13 2012 . riverbed to acquire opnet technologies inc. oct 29 2012 . retrieved dec 13 2012 . opnet named to list of world s most successful software companies ; independent industry analyst report ranks opnet as one of seven public software companies with eleven or more consecutive years of growth and profitability business wire . www.businesswire.com . retrieved 2016 03 02 . form 10 k . www.sec.gov . retrieved 2016 03 02 . form 10 q . www.sec.gov . retrieved 2016 03 02 . external links edit opnet s website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title opnet & oldid 728759575 categories companies formerly listed on nasdaqcompanies established in 1986networking software companiesnetworking hardware companies1986 establishments in maryland navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages fran ais edit links this page was last modified on 7 july 2016 at 13 12 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view