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Corporate Public Relations Contact   U.S. Public Relations Contacts
Sheri Najafi   Ray George
WildPackets, Inc.   Page One PR
sheri@wildpackets.com   ray@pageonepr.com
+1 925 937-3200   +1 650 922 3825


WildPackets first to Simultaneously Capture and Analyze Wireless Data from Multiple Channels


Newest version of OmniPeek provides major breakthrough in monitoring and maintaining wireless 802.11 A/B/G/N networks

WIRELESS08, LONDON – May 21, 2008 – WildPackets® Inc., a leading provider of network and application analysis solutions, today announced a major enhancement to their OmniPeek network analysis product – now the first in the industry to simultaneously capture and analyze wireless data from multiple channels in real time. This breakthrough is an important step forward in monitoring and maintaining wireless networks -- especially for the promising Wireless VoIP market led by Cisco, Avaya and Vonage.

Wireless VoIP is very sensitive - more than a few hundred millisecond delay leads to unacceptable quality and even dropped calls. Delays and dropped calls can occur when mobile wireless devices, such as laptops or phones, roam from one channel to another. Until now, solutions were only able to scan one channel at a time in a round-robin fashion leaving as much as 90% of wireless data unmonitored at any one period, making analyzing the data for troubleshooting and optimization almost impossible. Never before commercially available, the latest extensions to OmniPeek now offer real-time multi-channel capture, aggregation and analysis of wireless networks.

“The issues are connection-disconnection problems, less signal strength, dropped transmissions either on the phone in VoIP Wi-Fi environments or with laptops,” said Tony Barbagallo, vice president of marketing at WildPackets. “The latest extensions to OmniPeek now offer real-time multi-channel capture, aggregation and analysis of wireless networks to pinpoint the root cause of these issues and keep wireless networks running smoothly.”

Ralink Technology Partnership

WildPackets partnered with Ralink Technologies - a leading innovator and developer of wireless LAN chipset solutions – to develop OmniPeek’s support for USB wireless cards, which serve as the wireless packet capture devices. OmniPeek interfaces directly to multiple wireless cards configured to capture data from individual channels. OmniPeek executes multiple captures concurrently, and aggregates the channel data in a rolling graphical display.

About Ralink Technology

Ralink Technology Corporation is a leading innovator and developer of wireless LAN chipset solutions. Ralink’s patented MIMObility™ technology extends Wi-Fi applications from traditional PC networking to a range of digital multimedia and handheld devices including cell phones, PDAs, cameras, print servers, HDTV and video game players. Ralink Technology was founded in 2001 with its headquarters in Hsin-chu, Taiwan and an R&D center in Cupertino, California. For more information, visit Ralink at www.ralinktech.com.

About WildPackets, Inc.

WildPackets develops hardware and software solutions that drive network performance, enabling organizations of all sizes to analyze, troubleshoot, optimize, and secure their wired and wireless networks. WildPackets products are sold in over 60 countries and deployed in all industrial sectors, including 80 percent of the Fortune 1000. For further information, please visit www.wildpackets.com.

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