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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
For Marketing: brianne@aggroup.com
For Sales: sales@aggroup.com

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AG Group Ships EtherPeek(TM) 4 for Macintosh!

WALNUT CREEK, California - September 13, 1999

AG Group, Inc. announced today the release of EtherPeek 4 for Macintosh. This new, completely rewritten release adds many new enhancements to an already robust feature set. EtherPeek is well-known industry wide for its friendly GUI and powerful troubleshooting and debugging capabilities. This new release has been optimized for the latest Mac Operating Systems as well as taking advantage of the G3 processor and PCI-based Macs. "As we did 10 years ago with the introduction of EtherPeek, we are once again raising the bar for protocol analyzers. EtherPeek has more power and is easier than ever to use," says Mahboud Zabetian, President, AG Group. "I no longer need to stop running a capture session in order to monitor another network issue. I can just create a new window with its own filters, and have many independent capture sessions running simultaneously," adds Michael Wise, of Wired Magazine, a long-time EtherPeek user.

An award-winning Ethernet network traffic and protocol analyzer, EtherPeek sets the industry standard for ease-of-use, making the complex tasks of troubleshooting and debugging mixed-platform, multi-protocol networks easy. Key features of the software include real-time and post-capture packet filtering, Plug-ins for expert packet analysis, powerful decoding with support for all major protocol suites, ProtoSpecs(TM) technology for fine delineation of packet type, simple "Make Filter" command for address, protocol and offset filtering creation/modification, real-time utilization statistics for node, protocol, and filtered packet monitoring, Summary Statistics window for baselining and monitoring key traffic statistics at different intervals, HTML traffic statistics output, enhanced protocol definitions, and more.

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EtherPeek 4 for Macintosh Feature Enhancements

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• New! Multiple Capture Windows/Buffers/Filters Support for multiple buffer packet capture in different windows simultaneously, allowing you to capture a conversation in one buffer and another conversation in a separate buffer, or AppleTalk traffic into one buffer and IP traffic into another.
• New! Support for Advanced Filters New advanced filters allow the use of OR, AND, and NOT in filter creation and implementation.
• New! Filter creation based on port designation
• New! Filter creation based on strings located anywhere in the packet
• New! Name Table Options Support for Port names (e.g., IP and AppleTalk ports; Name Identification (such as router, server, client, etc.); and Name Table groups that can be loaded and unloaded, providing a more organized and customizable Name Table.
• New! Enhanced HTML Output for Statistics View real-time node, protocol and summary statistics gathered by EtherPeek with your Web browser. HTML templates provided with EtherPeek allow easy report customization to remotely access relevant network data from virtually any location.
• New! Enhanced Node Statistics View traffic to and from logical and hardware addresses. Node Statistics now show logical addresses associated with hardware addresses or name aliases.
• New! Monitor Mode Node, Protocol and Conversation Statistics are collected and displayed continuously in real-time.
• New! Name Resolution Options "Silent Resolver" will listen for packets containing name resolution information and use that information to help build the Name Table. "Active Resolver" will actively resolve any resolvable IP or AppleTalk names.
• New! Hierarchical view of packet decode information
• New! Split Frame Format for packet decodes View a decoded packet in two panes (header/data and raw) -- highlighting an item in the decoded packet selects the raw hex values in another pane.
• Fully Y2K compliant

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Pricing, Availability and System Requirements

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EtherPeek 4 for Macintosh is now available. The EtherPeek 4 upgrade is FREE to all EtherPeek maintenance owners.

EtherPeek SRP: US $995.00
EtherPeek 4 for Macintosh One-Year Maintenance: US $300.00

Suggested Minimum System Requirements:
PCI-based Power Macintosh
System 8.0 or Higher
32 MB of RAM recommended
Supported Ethernet Network Interface Card

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AG Group, Inc.

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AG Group, Inc. specializes in the development of powerful and affordable software-based tools to troubleshoot, optimize and maintain mixed-platform, multi-protocol network environments. Our goal of bringing superior technology, accessibility, value and flexibility to the ever-expanding realm of network management incorporates both software and service products. Currently, AG Group offerings include network and protocol analyzers, LAN/WAN and internet traffic monitors, TCP/IP test utilities, and network management and protocol-specific training classes.