AlterPoint Announces Participation in OPNET Alliance Program; Change Execution With Change Analytics Improves Network Security, Compliance and Performance.

AUSTIN, Texas -- AlterPoint(TM) Inc., the leading provider of intelligent network change and configuration management (NCCM) solutions, today announced AlterPoint's participation in OPNET Technologies' Partner Alliance Program. AlterPoint is collaborating with OPNET to enable integration of its change management capabilities with OPNET's advanced analysis of proposed network configuration changes.

"Unplanned or poorly analyzed changes are a leading cause of downtime, performance problems and security vulnerabilities," said Todd Kaloudis, OPNET Vice President of Business Development and Marketing. "We look forward to working with AlterPoint to address these problems for our customers."

Many customers already use AlterPoint's DeviceAuthority and OPNET IT Guru today. Integration offers an enhanced value proposition to these users, by providing the ability to analyze the impact of changes prior to implementing them. Customers can realize improved availability, security, and flexibility through their network change management.

As Alliance Partners, AlterPoint and OPNET will engage in sales and marketing collaboration to further understand the needs of mutual customers. AlterPoint has also been invited to participate in OPNETWORK 2006, OPNET's annual technology conference.

"We are excited to be undertaking this partnership with OPNET," says Jeff Ait, President and CEO of AlterPoint. "Tighter integration between our technologies will provide our customers even greater visibility and control to reduce vulnerabilities and improve availability."

About DeviceAuthority

DeviceAuthority, the fastest growing and most widely adopted multi-vendor NCCM solution, delivers real-time visibility, automation and governance of complex IT infrastructures. DeviceAuthority allows IT staff to better assess the impact of changes across network devices (routers, switches, firewalls, load balances, wireless access points, etc.), more effectively fulfill compliance requirements, harden overall security, improve the analysis of network failures and performance problems, and optimize planning for business change.

DeviceAuthority scales to support the largest enterprise networks, integrating with the leading network and systems management technologies, and can manage thousands of changes per hour. DeviceAuthority's vendor neutral data model collects, normalizes and models device configurations to deliver the right information to the right people. A policy engine supported by templates and wizards enables compliance and security definition, enforcement and remediation. Enterprises that deploy DeviceAuthority proactively prevent and treat problems at the root cause and experience reduced network downtime, improved efficiency, minimized risk and lower costs.

About OPNET

Founded in 1986, OPNET Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:OPNT) is a leading provider of management software for networks and applications. For more information about OPNET and its products, please visit http://www.opnet.com.

About AlterPoint Inc.

AlterPoint develops intelligent network change and configuration management (NCCM) solutions that have pioneered the evolution of network management. Companies worldwide rely on the intelligence and automation provided by AlterPoint's award-winning product, DeviceAuthority Suite, to proactively manage configuration change, compliance and security across their multi-vendor network to maximize the performance and availability of their IT infrastructure. Founded in 2001, AlterPoint is headquartered in Austin, Texas, with offices in Europe and Asia. For more information, please visit www.alterpoint.com.

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