Press Release

WildPackets Announces EtherPeek NX™ Promotion

Maintenance Owners, New License Purchases Realize Significant Savings in Time-Limited Offer

Walnut Creek, California - November 12, 2001

WildPackets Inc., developers of a complete family of network and Internet management tools, announced the coupling of an aggressive pricing program with the launch of their newest product release, EtherPeek NX with NetSense™ Real-Time Expert Technology. EtherPeek NX brings the power and facility of a real-time expert tool to WildPackets' solid, feature-rich EtherPeek base. Combining EtherPeek's broad packet analysis capabilities and accessible UI with problem detection heuristics, expert mapping, and diagnostic intelligence, WildPackets delivers another powerful, affordable product to help manage Ethernet networks.

"IT Professionals in a range of enterprises and at all levels of expertise have been asking for a true, up-to-date expert system to help diagnose network issues for them," says Janice Spampinato, Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing. "EtherPeek NX has been carefully designed to address this requirement, incorporating years of acquired packet analysis intelligence into its problem finding and solving features. High-end expert capability, ease of use, and affordability provide a sound technical and economic basis for consideration of EtherPeek NX as the analyzer of choice for any individual, group or organization responsible for assuring network productivity."

EtherPeek NX Pricing

EtherPeek NX Real-time Expert Analysis Protocol Analyzer SRP: $2,995.00 USD.
(includes EtherHelp Remote Analysis Application, iNetTools IP test utility suite, SDK Suite, and 12 months Extended Maintenance).

EtherPeek NX with 24 months Extended Maintenance: SRP $3,995.00 USD.

PRODUCT PROMOTION: All EtherPeek NX purchases made through December 15th, 2001 will include an additional 12 months of product maintenance ($1,000.00 savings).

EtherPeek and EtherPeek/NetSense maintenance owners can purchase EtherPeek NX licenses at a significant discount until December 15, 2001. Contact sales@wildpackets.com or visit our web site for program details. Demonstration versions of the software can be downloaded from http://www.wildpackets.com/demos/.

About EtherPeek NX

EtherPeek NX brings the power of NetSense Expert Analysis to WildPackets' solid base EtherPeek technology. As networks converge media, voice and new technologies into increasingly diverse and complex infrastructures, IT Professionals look to Expert Systems to sort through, analyze, diagnose, and isolate network data. Expert Systems need to be precise in pinpointing problems, relevant for current networks and topologies, able to accurately detect real symptoms and diagnose real problems. EtherPeek NX has been designed to excel at all of these requirements, delivering expert tools to provide precise, contemporary analysis of today's complex networks.

EtherPeek NX is the first and only protocol analyzer to offer both expert diagnostics and frame decoding in real-time, during capture. The Expert view provides expert analysis of latency, throughput, and over three dozen network problems in a conversation-centered view of traffic. NX's Expert System has been created with the assistance of network engineers, professional consultants and high-level packet analysis instructors with decades of collective experience and training. The intelligence brought to bear on data presented to the Expert System provides real-time, realistic indications of network traffic conditions and problems, rendered in an intuitive display.

System Requirements

EtherPeek NX requires Windows 98, ME, NT 4.0 (service pack 3 or later), 2000, or XP. To optimize overall performance, a 400 MHz processor with 128 MB RAM is the minimum system requirement for 10 Mbit Ethernet, and a 600 MHz processor with 256 MB RAM or better is the recommended configuration.

About WildPackets Inc.

Since 1990, WildPackets has been developing affordable tools designed to simplify the complex tasks associated with designing, maintaining, troubleshooting and optimizing computer networks. Our products, including EtherPeek NX, EtherPeek, AiroPeek, TokenPeek, NetSense, NetDoppler, ProConvert and PacketScrubber are currently sold in over 50 countries throughout the globe. WildPackets customers include Cisco Systems, EDS, Lucent Technologies, Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia, Siebel, Symbol Technologies, and others. Strategic partners include 3Com, Cisco Systems, Proxim, SysKonnect, and Symbol Technologies. Information on the company, products and partners is available at www.wildpackets.com. WildPackets Academy courses and Professional Services offerings are viewable at www.wildpacketsacademy.com. WildPackets' Network Analysis Expert (NAX) Certification Program details live at www.nax2000.com.