Press Release

WildPackets' EtherPeek NX™ Wins Network Magazine's "Product of the Year" Award

Walnut Creek, California - April 15, 2002

WildPackets Inc., a leading developer of comprehensive tools for managing, diagnosing and monitoring wired and wireless network performance for the enterprise, announced that EtherPeek NX™ has won Network Magazine's "Product of the Year" Award in the Protocol Analyzer category. Network Magazine recognizes significant innovations from the past year through Product of the Year presentations - one of the networking industry's longest-running awards program.

Network Magazine editors use an extensive research and review process to select the most innovative and significant hardware, software, and service offerings to hit the market in the previous year. The 2002 categories are focused on product and service areas essential to today's network/IT buyers, including Wireless LANs, storage hardware, network servers, security, troubleshooting tools and outsourced services.

The criteria used to judge Product of the Year Award winners include the broad appeal of the product or service to the magazine's reader community; competitive enhancements; price/performance advantages; technical ingenuity; new features and applications; and serviceability to the market. EtherPeek NX was nominated and chosen as the winner in its category for the software's superior expert diagnostics; unique, elliptical Peer Map; real-time analysis; highly intuitive GUI; support for multiple capture windows; hierarchical Expert Analysis System; and aggressive pricing.

In announcing the award to WildPackets' employees, President and CEO Mahboud Zabetian stated, "Winning Product of the Year means that enterprise customers and industry insiders alike are affirming our mission to create increasingly powerful, relevant, and consistently affordable network management software. Our development path is also given validation through this recognition of EtherPeek NX and its Expert System."

Awards will be presented at a ceremony on May 8th during NetWorld + Interop 2002 Las Vegas. Product of the Year winners will also be featured in the May 2002 issue of Network Magazine. Award categories are found at http://www.networkmagazine.com/static/POY/notice.html.

CMP Media's monthly networking publication Network Magazine -- Where the Enterprise Meets the New Public Network -- supplies 200,000 worldwide networking/IT buyers--consisting of network/IT managers at corporate enterprises, carriers and service providers, and outsource partner organizations--with in-depth technical information for direct purchasing decisions of mission-critical networking products and services. CMP Media LLC (www.cmp.com) is a leading high-tech media company providing essential information and marketing services to the entire technology spectrum -- the builders, sellers and users of technology worldwide.

About EtherPeek NX

EtherPeek NX, with NetSense Real-Time Expert Technology, has been carefully designed to assist IT Professionals in analyzing and diagnosing increasingly large and diverse volumes of network data, providing precise, contemporary analysis of the problems facing today's networks. NX Expert Analysis features track dozens of separate aspects of network performance, showing the source of problems at the packet level. The Expert View provides expert analysis of latency, throughput, and dozens of network problems in a conversation-centered view of traffic. The Peer Map creates a map of conversations, showing traffic volume and protocol information for each pair of nodes. As with all WildPackets' "Peek" products, EtherPeek NX has the ability to open multiple live capture windows, each with independent expert and Peer Map analysis. More information is available from http://www.wildpackets.com/products/etherpeek_nx.

About WildPackets Inc.

WildPackets, a privately-held corporation, was founded in 1990 with a mission to create software-based tools to simplify the complex tasks associated with maintaining, troubleshooting, and optimizing evolving computer networks. WildPackets' patented, core "Peek" technology is the development base for EtherPeek™, TokenPeek™, AiroPeek™ , and the NX™ family of expert packet analyzers. All are recognized as the analysis tools of choice for small, medium, and large enterprise customers, allowing IT Professionals to easily maximize network productivity. Information on WildPackets, WildPackets Academy, Professional Services, products, and partners is available at www.wildpackets.com.