Press Release

EtherPeek™ Earns PC Magazine Editors' Choice Award

Selected As Premier Product In Field Of Eight LAN Analyzers

Walnut Creek, California - May 3, 2001

WildPackets Inc., developers of affordable and comprehensive tools that help manage corporate networks and internets, today announced that EtherPeek has been selected as PC Magazine's "Editors' Choice" with a perfect score in a field of eight protocol analyzers.

PC Labs criteria for rating products include ease of use, installation, interface, supported protocols, and traffic analysis. The results of their tests appear in the May 22nd edition of PC Magazine, describing EtherPeek as "a rarity, combining powerhouse features with a handsome interface" and going on to state that "EtherPeek is, hands down, the best midrange solution at the $1,000 price level for monitoring a network."

EtherPeek, WildPackets' flagship product, has enjoyed more than ten years of development and remains the center of the company's dynamic product line. EtherPeek's patented, core technology has been integrated into other WildPackets' products, including WatchPoint™ real-time web monitoring software, WebStats™ web traffic analysis module for EtherPeek, and AiroPeek™, the industry's first and only affordable 802.11b wireless LAN analyzer.

About WildPackets, Inc.

WildPackets has been developing affordable, accessible, high performance tools to deliver real-time, strategic information about an organization's network and Internet presence for over ten years. Since our founding in 1990, our goal has been to simplify the complex tasks associated with maintaining, troubleshooting and optimizing growing computer networks. Information on WildPackets' products and partners is available from http://www.wildpackets.com