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WildPackets Releases the Omni Wireless Sensor

Remote Device Monitors Entire WLAN in Real Time

Walnut Creek, California, October 4, 2005 – WildPackets Inc., innovators in advanced network analysis, today announced the North American release of their Omni Wireless Sensor™, a small-footprint embedded system that monitors the health and security of 802.11 wireless traffic in real time. The Omni Wireless Sensor complements WildPackets award-winning Omni distributed network analysis platform by extending expert wireless analysis to the network edge – exactly where the wireless traffic lives.

As a self-contained hardware appliance, the Omni Wireless Sensor performs packet capture and real-time expert analysis on any combination of 802.11 (a/b/g) technologies deployed. It provides real-time monitoring of the network, ensuring compliance with established security and deployment policies, including the identification of rogue APs and potential attacks from unauthorized wireless clients. Real-time expert analysis is performed right at the source, with a full suite of alarms, filters and triggers to ensure the data is meaningful and actionable. As a component of the Omni platform, it analyzes application response times and other metrics essential for optimizing wireless services, and speeds full seven-layer packet analysis by performing it locally.

“Data for wireless network analysis must be collected at the source, the network edge, and it must be done economically,” says Dovid Coplon, Director of Product Management at WildPackets. “The Omni Wireless Sensor is designed and priced for remote deployment. With its ability to analyze all data locally, it sends only processed data back to the Omni Console, in a highly efficient manner, making the Omni Wireless Sensor a key new addition to the Omni distributed enterprise platform.”

About Omni v3.0

The Omni architecture is comprised of OmniPeek Consoles and Omni Engines that deliver complete coverage and analysis of local and remote networks. Omni’s unique architecture allows different types of simultaneous analysis, on any topology or segment. With its real-time packet analytics, rich graphical data, Visual Expert toolkit, application layer decodes, and point-and-click interface, Omni gives network engineers everything they need to respond to anomalous network events quickly. Omni maintains data integrity, while allowing different users to access data based on need. IT managers can monitor top talkers, top applications, or outsourced IT in real-time. Visit: www.wildpackets.com/products/omni

About OmniPeek Consoles

OmniPeek console options include OmniPeek Connect™ with support for remote analysis from Omni DNX Engines, OmniPeek™ with support for local and distributed 10/100/1000 Ethernet, Full-duplex Gigabit, WAN, and WLAN analysis, and OmniPeek Voice that adds VoIP analysis to the OmniPeek feature set.

About Omni Engines

Omni Engine options include the new Omni Wireless Sensor, which runs a specialized version of the engine on a small remote device, the Omni Desktop Engine™, a low-cost Windows service that runs on desktops and captures 10/100 Ethernet packets for on-demand analysis, the Omni Capture Engine™ providing remote, real-time, multi-NIC, multi-segment analysis, and the full-featured Omni DNX Engine™, offering expert, real-time, all-topology analysis.

About WildPackets Inc.

WildPackets develops solutions that provide more network information to more people to assist them in maintaining productivity and the integrity of data in motion. Sold in over 60 countries through a broad network of channel and strategic partners, WildPackets products are deployed in all industrial sectors, including 80% of the Fortune 1000. For further information, please visit www.wildpackets.com.

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