Press Release

WildPackets AiroPeek NX™ Awarded "Network Troubleshooting/Analysis Product of the Year" by IDG

Walnut Creek, CA - July 21, 2004

WildPackets Inc., innovators in advanced network services fault analysis, announced that AiroPeek NX expert wireless LAN analyzer was awarded "Network Troubleshooting/Analysis Product of the Year" by IDG. The 2004 Network Awards, which recognize the success of companies leading the way in the networking market, were presented by TechWorld.com in London. The Network Awards honors both sides of the industry - to individuals and teams delivering value to their organization and to vendors and service providers delivering innovative products and solutions (http://www.networkawards.com).

"We design our products to maximize IT productivity and minimize network event response time by delivering the most advanced features in easy-to-use products which offer an integrated solution that spans all network topologies," said Brant Cooper, vice president of corporate strategy at WildPackets. "The success of products like AiroPeek NX at winning awards based on user input is strong validation that we are meeting our design goals and maintaining our leadership in the marketplace."

AiroPeek NX is a full-spectrum WLAN management tool, delivering site survey, security assessment, client troubleshooting, monitoring, and application layer protocol analysis. It offers both packet stream analytics and frame decoding in real-time, during capture. With support for 802.11a/b/g, an SSID Tree with security status indicators, multiple security Experts, a Security Audit Template, WPA support, and customizable graphs for correlating performance metrics, AiroPeek NX is the most comprehensive wireless analyzer.

More About AiroPeek NX

AiroPeek NX allows IT professionals to manage their enterprise WLAN with powerful problem detection heuristics and 802.11-specific diagnostic capabilities. For extended networks, AiroPeek NX can receive traffic from one or multiple RFGrabber™ probes to perform Expert analysis, in real-time, on remote segments. This enables IT managers to troubleshoot geographically distributed WLAN networks or hotspots from a central location. AiroPeek NX is the only wireless analyzer that allows a user to perform simultaneous analysis of more than one channel or Standard through its support of multiple adapters.

About Techworld

Techworld is a web site that provides news, reviews, analysis, how to articles and technical white papers to Britain's technical community. Written mainly by IT managers themselves, it's a fast-changing knowledge source that provides all the information that a technician needs to run a corporate network. Built around a range of Knowledge Centres (of which storage and security are the first) Techworld is constantly evolving, and is set to become the first UK site that will offer highly relevant technical information on all aspects of enterprise networking. Visit www.techworld.com.

About International Data Group

IDG is the world's leading IT media, research and exposition company. Founded in 1964, IDG offers the widest range of media options, which reach 90 million IT buyers in 80 countries representing 95% of world-wide IT spending. IDG's diverse product and services portfolio spans six key areas, including print publishing, online publishing, expositions and conferences, market research, education and training, and global marketing services. Visit www.idg.co.uk.

About WildPackets Inc.

Since 1990, WildPackets has been delivering real-time fault analysis solutions that enable the world’s organizations to keep their networks running securely and reliably, day after day. From the desktop to the datacenter, from wireless LANs to Gigabit backbones, on local segments and across distributed networks, WildPackets products enable IT organizations to quickly find and fix problems affecting mission-critical network services. WildPackets products are sold in over 60 countries through a broad network of channel and strategic partners. Over 5,000 customers across all industrial sectors use WildPackets products daily to troubleshoot networks and maximize network uptime. WildPackets customers include Agilent, Cisco Systems, Comcast, EDS, Microsoft, Siemens AG, Unisys, Motorola, and Deutsche Bank. Strategic partners include Aruba, Atheros, Cisco, 3Com, Intel and Symbol Technologies. Visit www.wildpackets.com.

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