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Press Release

WildPackets Hires Chief Financial Officer

Kenneth Bozzini Brings 20 Years of Financial Management Expertise to Guide Further Growth and Profits

Walnut Creek, CA - October 28, 2004

WildPackets Inc., innovators in advanced network services fault analysis, today announced the appointment of Kenneth Bozzini as Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Finance. Bozzini will lead WildPackets’ finance and operations in support of the company’s growth and expansion plans and will report to Mahboud Zabetian, President and CEO.

Bozzini brings to WildPackets more than 20 years of global financial management and technology experience, including demonstrated success in building customer-centric infrastructure in high growth fast paced environments. Bozzini’s more recent experience has been with public companies, including responsibility for SEC reporting, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and fundraising. In addition to financial oversight including treasury and investor relations, Bozzini has been responsible for developing productive human resource and information technology departments. He has held senior financial positions at XOMA, Evolve Software Inc., Action Technologies, Synon Corporation and Hewlett-Packard Company. Bozzini qualified as a CPA while working with the accounting firm PricewaterhouserCoopers, earned a MBA from U.C. Berkeley, has an undergraduate degree in accounting and is a certified internal auditor (CIA).

"Ken is an experienced financial officer with the precise blend of domestic, international, and growth management skills we sought to support and accelerate the strong growth our company has enjoyed over the last four years," said Mahboud Zabetian, CEO of WildPackets. "Our strategy of helping companies realize the ROI of their wireless and voice investments, managed as extensions of existing networks, has led to a high level of interest from customers, partners and the financial community. Hiring Ken is a key element in maintaining our momentum, revenue growth, and industry relationships."

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, spanning all industrial sectors and including 80% of the Fortune 1000, use WildPackets products daily to troubleshoot networks and maximize network uptime. WildPackets customers include Cisco Systems, Comcast, EDS, Microsoft, Siemens AG, Unisys, Motorola, and Deutsche Bank. Strategic partners include Aruba, Atheros, Cisco, 3Com, Intel and Symbol Technologies. For further information, please visit www.wildpackets.com.

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