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WildPackets Expands European Presence, Appoints UK-based Sales Engineer

...growing market demand leads to European sales team addition to support local customers...

Walnut Creek, California, July 6, 2005 – WildPackets Inc., innovators in advanced network analysis, today announced the appointment of Chris Bell as European Sales Engineer. Europe is one of WildPackets’ fastest growing markets, and Chris Bell will augment existing resources in support of the customer base and business development in the region.

“Chris brings tremendous technical, strategic, and training skills to the EMEA team,” says Riaz Khan, Director of European Sales. “We’re delighted to have a direct sales support presence based in the UK that will service local accounts as well as the entire European channel. Chris also has a background that will allow him to provide expert pre-and post-deployment assistance for all those migrating to our Omni distributed analysis platform.”

“The release of Omni v.3.0 with enhanced voice and wireless features has been followed by a marked increase in product interest and adoption rates for the platform in Europe,” states Bob Siegel, WildPackets’ VP of International Sales. “Our success in providing a platform that satisfies the need for affordable, contemporary distributed network analysis, for high-profile forensics, data mining, and more, has led to a need for more local support resources. To properly service our products and customers, and to maintain our high level of support, we needed a gifted resource close to our account base. We are very fortunate to have found Chris Bell, the ideal person for this large and pivotal role in WildPackets’ international support organization.”

Chris Bell has held production and system engineering, business development, and professional services positions with Symbol Technologies UK for the past 9 years. He has also delivered presentations at seminars and industry events in the UK and Europe, such as IDC Mobility Conference in London, and been a guest lecturer at Bournemouth University Business School. In addition, he is a member of IEEE, holds a degree in Electroacoustics, and various industry certifications.

About WildPackets Inc.

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. For further information, please visit www.wildpackets.com.

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