WildPackets Launches OmniPeek Personal

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Powerful Subset of Commercial Product Now Available For Individuals

Walnut Creek, California, June 19, 2006

– WildPackets Inc., innovators in advanced network analysis, today announced it has launched OmniPeek™ Personal, the first commercially developed Expert network analyzer available free for personal use. OmniPeek Personal gives individual users the chance to experience the power and extensibility of WildPackets� award-winning network analysis technology at no cost.

OmniPeek Personal offers:

• Best-in-class wired and wireless analysis in one application
• Intuitive real-time graphics and display with award-winning UI
• Powerful Visual Expert and Packet Visualizer toolsets
• Application analysis and Apdex scoring that reflects end user satisfaction with applications
• Plug-in extensibility

Using OmniPeek Personal, users can:

• Troubleshoot network performance and security problems
• View “top talkers” on the network and drill down to see which nodes are communicating, which protocols and sub-protocols are being transmitted, and which traffic characteristics are affecting network performance
• Change filters on the fly without having to stop and restart packet captures
• View packet-stream based analytics by conversation pair, instantly locating network events, such as SQL queries and DoS attacks

OmniPeek Personal is a free version of the OmniPeek Analyzer, the portable network analyzer included in the OmniAnalysis Platform. OmniPeek Personal runs on Windows and is available for download at a new WildPackets web site,www.omnipeek.com. A standard support and maintenance option is also available online.

Free Plug-ins Extend OmniPeek’s Functionality

WildPackets products, including OmniPeek Personal, are unique in the world of commercial network analysis products in featuring an open API and SDK that enables users to extend the functionality of the product through custom plug-ins. WildPackets has published a small but growing collection of plug-ins onwww.omnipeek.comand onhttp://wpdn.wildpackets.com, the web site for the WildPackets Developer Network. Users can download and install these free plug-ins once they have installed OmniPeek Personal. Available plug-ins include:

• A Google™ Maps plug-in that displays a Google Map showing the location of an IP device being analyzed
• A SQLFilter plug-in that enables users to submit SQL queries to locate key data in packet captures

For more information about the WildPackets API and other features of the WildPackets OmniAnalysis Platform, please visithttp://www.wildpackets.com/products/omni/overview.

About WildPackets Inc.

Since 1990 WildPackets has been developing innovative, high-quality, easy-to-use and valuable solutions to maintain the health and integrity of critical data-in-motion. From the desktop to the datacenter, wired to wireless, distributed and local, WildPackets products enable IT organizations to monitor, troubleshoot, and secure their network systems. 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 visitwww.wildpackets.com.

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