Standard or not, how cohen got opnet off the ground should interest entrepreneurs targeting the federal government market. I owe a debt of gratitude to sasha bailey of opnet for her help in making the software license available to my students and to me for implementing and testing the experiments. According to alain cohen, opnet president and cto, opnet is recognized for the breadth of our application performance management solutions, with realtime endto. Panorama appeals to a broad range of customers, from midsize organizations to very large, global enterprises, stated alain cohen, opnet s president and chief technology officer. According to alain cohen, opnet president and cto, the need for integration between application and network performance management is becoming more acute as the application infrastructure becomes. Openet was founded in 1986 by brothers alain and marc cohen as a tiny garage operation that eventually went public 14 years later. Riverbed to acquire opnet technologies inc riverbed us. Together with my brother, alain, i have founded over half a dozen companies, in tech, biotech, and sports technology. Its ok for the cars software to shut off all power. The opnet software was funded in 1986 by alain cohen. Millionaire sues tesla over small seat tear to spotlight. Opnet stood for optimized network engineering tools.
Rvbd, the performance company, and opnet technologies, inc. Cohen is the chief executive officer, chief software architect, and. Opnet, which stands for optimized network engineering tools, was launched in 1986 and based on founder alain j. Opnet is the first company offering a monitoring solution via the rsp. Opnet outline 1 about opnet 2 it guru academic edition 3. Alain cohen, opnet president and cto, added, opnets products represent a new class of network and system management solutions, which. Alain served as opnet s president and cto until its sale in 2012 to riverbed technology. Opnet lab 1 opnetoptimized network engineering tools is. Alain received a degree in electrical engineering from the. For the past two years, the irs has used application performance management software from opnet technologies in maryland to fix problems in the development of its portals that allow webbased tax.
Alain j cohen is presidentcto at opnet technologies inc. Cohen in 1986 and was headquartered in bethesda, md. About opnet contd alain cohen, along with his brother marc and steven baraniuk, founded mil 3, inc. Alain served as opnets president and cto until its sale in 2012 to riverbed. Opnet announces new software for 3d network visualization. Opnet optimized network engineering tools is a network simulator software program, and according to wikipedia is used to predict the behavior of networks and applications under different situations. One burning question that arises from the acquisition news. Opnet modeler provides a comprehensive development environment which is powerful for instance simulation, data analysis, model design and etc. Alain and his brother marc brought opnet public on the nasdaq stock exchange in 2000 and today alain serves as. The companys first product was opnet modeler, a software tool. Alain cohen and marc cohen founded opnet technologies, a software company specializing in application and network performance management. Companies use simulators to design their networks to get a feel for how they will perform under current. Opnet announces solutions for high definition application.
Cohen was co founder and president of opnet technologies, a nasdaq traded. Opnet technologies inc, a bethesda software company, said yesterday that it agreed to buy a north carolina software business, netmaker, in a cash and stock deal. I love the healthy vibe of bethesda and the wellnessminded attitude of the people who live and work here. Opnet stands for optimized engineering tools, a graduate project for a course in networking at mit by alain cohen, his brother marc cohen, and classmate steven baraniuk. Opnt, a world leader in application and network performance management. Alain cohen massachusetts institute of technology washington. We moved our first business, a publicly traded company called opnet, to bethesda, and became big fans of the area.
Marc and alain cohen founded opnet in 1986, taking the company public in 2000. Later on, these three guys agreed to make the networking software commercial and so the company opnet technologies, inc. Opnet and riverbed integrate solution storagenewsletter. Panorama appeals to a broad range of customers, from midsize organizations to very large, global enterprises, stated alain cohen, opnets president and chief technology officer. Alain cohen london, united kingdom professional profile. Opnet technologies provides software tools for planning, modeling, and simulating communication networks and distribution systems. Riverbed said opnets ceo marc cohen and his brother alain cohen, who cofounded it, will join the company, but did not. Opnet modeler is generally used by researchers, developing protocol designers and so on. Application performance management network planning and engineering network research and development. Researchers use network simulators to see how their protocols would behave if deployed.
Successful tech mergers require strong analysis and planning. Marc a cohen is chairmanceosecretary at opnet technologies inc. Alain cohen, a 20yearold mit student, developed opnet in 1986. Opnet acquires dsauditorr product line from embarcadero. Marc cohen chairman, chief executive officer mel wesley chief financial officer. He has led the design and development of many of the companys software products which are aimed at resolving and preventing problems in networks and distributed applications.
This latest release will provide our users with powerful new options for implementing panorama in largescale environments. View alain cohens profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional community. Openet was founded in 1986 by brothers alain and marc cohen as a tiny. Design is one of the important components of predictive network management, and we believe netmakers advanced technologies for automated network design are bestinclass, alain cohen, opnet. Opnet stands for optimizing network engineering tools 70. Alain served as opnets president and cto until its sale in 2012 to riverbed technology. It just happens to be done in a software approach, rather than an. In teslas case, i fear the appropriate focus is missing. View alain cohens professional profile on linkedin. Why this tesla fan thinks the company is losing its way. Cohen, opnets president and chief technical officer, said the company hired 10 percent more people last year and expects to hire more this year.
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