Sniffer Technologies Provides Wireless LAN Solutions With Cisco Systems To Customers Around the Globe.

Customers Can Now Conduct Real-Time Management of Their Wireless LAN

Environment Through Sniffer Wireless

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Dec. 4 /PRNewswire/ --

Sniffer Technologies, a Network Associates, Inc. (Nasdaq: NETA) business, today announced that it has joined Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO), the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet, to provide customers worldwide with industry-leading wireless local area networking (LAN) solutions through its Sniffer Wireless offering. As the industry's first wireless LAN protocol analysis tool, the Sniffer Wireless product has been customized to provide customers using Cisco's Aironet wireless LAN products with reliable and secure network management, monitoring and analysis capabilities for their 802.11b-based* wireless environment.

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"Customers are demanding that their wireless LANs maintain the same reliability and management capabilities as their wired networks," said Bill Rossi, vice president and general manager of Cisco's Wireless Networking Business Unit. "With industry leaders like Sniffer Technologies and Cisco Systems providing compatible wireless products, customers can build and maintain reliable end-to-end wireless LAN management solutions."

Sniffer Wireless will allow customers to monitor and analyze business-critical data transmitted to their company database by Cisco Aironet wireless devices from various locations. Specifically, Sniffer Technologies will provide wireless customers with the capability to spot security risks and encryption issues real-time; identify and resolve potential network problems and slow-downs immediately; and reduce unnecessary costs by helping customers build an efficient wireless LAN infrastructure that meets their specific needs.

"Our relationship with Cisco demonstrates the joining of two industry leaders to address the rapidly growing need for quality, long-term network management solutions for wireless LAN customers around the globe," said Bakul Mehta, president of Sniffer Technologies. "Today's announcement is a clear indicator of Sniffer Technologies' commitment to bringing cutting-edge solutions that enable customers to have more control of their wireless enterprise."

Today's announcement follows a series of recent announcements made by Sniffer Technologies in an aggressive campaign to address the growing wireless LAN market, which industry analysts expect to be worth $2 billion by 2003. Sniffer Technologies' decision to collaborate with Cisco underscores this commitment and demonstrates the Company's focus in providing high-quality, secure wireless LAN management solutions to address the needs of customers today.

Sniffer Wireless also supports Symbol Technologies' Spectrum24(R) High Rate Wireless LAN solution. Symbol Technologies, Inc., is a leading application specific mobile computing and wireless LAN technology company.

For additional information on Sniffer Wireless and product availability, please contact Sniffer Technologies at 800-SNIFFER.

Sniffer Technologies, a Network Associates business, is a leading provider of network and application management solutions designed to insure e-business uptime. Supporting one of the widest ranges of network topologies in the industry, the Sniffer Total Network Visibility (TNV) suite is an integrated solution enabling e-businesses and service providers to cost-effectively keep their networks and applications up and running at peak performance. As one of the most trusted solutions for monitoring, troubleshooting, reporting, and proactively managing network availability and performance, the Sniffer TNV suite meets the demanding 24x7 availability requirements of e-business Web sites, Internet applications, converged voice, video, multimedia and data networks, and high speed switched and optical networks. For more information, Sniffer Technologies can be reached on the Internet at http://www.sniffer.com.

About Network Associates

With headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif., Network Associates, Inc. is a leading supplier of security and availability solutions for e-business. Network Associates' five business units, PGP Security, providing firewall, intrusion detection and encryption products, Sniffer Technologies, a leader in network and application management, Magic Solutions, providing web-based service desk solutions, McAfee, delivering world class anti-virus products, and myCIO.com, an infrastructure ASP providing security and anti-virus services, all produce best-of-breed solutions leveraging core technologies to provide the security and availability needed for e-business. Network Associates is also a majority owner of McAfee.com, one of the world's largest business to consumer application service providers. For more information, Network Associates can be reached at 972-308-9960 or on the Internet at http://www.nai.com.

*802.11b is the IEEE industry standard for wireless interoperability.

NOTE: Network Associates, Sniffer, Total Network Visibility, TNV, PGP, McAfee and Magic Solutions are registered trademarks of Network Associates, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the United States and/or other countries. All other registered and unregistered trademarks in this document are the sole property of their respective owners.