Chevin partners with WildPackets to offer Distributed Network Monitoring and Expert Analysis Solution

Combining Chevins expertise in network design, management, and fluid application integration with WildPackets expert packet analysis, TeVISTA Expert is a full-featured, distributed expert analysis system, available for a fraction of the cost of its nearest competitors.

London, 21 May 2002, - Leading network management software vendor Chevin Limited has forged a strategic partner relationship with WildPackets Inc., developers of EtherPeek NX and other tools for diagnosis and expert analysis of wired and wireless networks for the enterprise.

Under the agreement, Chevin will sell a software-based distributed network monitoring and expert analysis solution incorporating EtherPeek NX, commencing with the launch of TeVISTA Expert on May 17th 2002.

Since its introduction in early 2001, Chevins award-winning TeVISTA network management product has established itself as one of the leading distributed network performance and monitoring software solutions in markets around the globe. Combining Chevins expertise in network design, management, and fluid application integration with WildPackets expert packet analysis, TeVISTA Expert is a full-featured, distributed expert analysis system, available for a fraction of the cost of its nearest competitors.

TeVISTA Expert has been designed to provide a fully detailed view of performance for todays complex networks. TeVISTA Expert provides total visibility of everything on a network in real-time by gathering information from software probes without relying on remote polling devices. By using this intelligent method of seeking information, TeVISTA Expert is able to provide real time and historic views of critical features of network activity. With the addition of EtherPeek NX, TeVISTA Expert will now also offer detailed diagnostics and expert analysis systems across the entire network, seamlessly integrated into TeVISTA Experts distributed monitoring architecture.

I am very excited about our TeVISTA Expert product launch," said Koby Amedume, Vice President of Marketing for Chevin. Developing innovative products that deliver real value to our customers is a constant challenge. By integrating our product with the comprehensive expert system provided by WildPackets EtherPeek NX, we can now offer distributed network monitoring plus the sophisticated expert analysis our customers have been asking for." Amedume added, TeVISTA Expert represents a powerful new dimension in the network management space and, through this partnership, we can provide great technology and immediate ROI to organisations worldwide."

WildPackets EMEA Business Development Director, Richard Buchanan, said, EtherPeek NX has been carefully designed to assist IT Professionals in analysing and diagnosing increasingly diverse volumes of network data, and to provide precise, contemporary analysis of the problems facing today's networks. Integrating EtherPeek NX with the TeVISTA Expert solution means that IT professionals can now have the expert heuristics and intelligent diagnostics of our software coupled with Chevins highly effective distributed approach to network monitoring."

WildPackets award-winning EtherPeek NX is the first protocol analyzer to offer both expert diagnostics and frame decoding in real time, during capture. EtherPeek NX Expert Analysis features track dozens of separate aspects of network performance, showing the source of problems at the packet level. The Expert View provides comprehensive analysis of latency, throughput, and dozens of network problems in a conversation-centered view of traffic. The Peer Map creates a map of conversations, showing traffic volume and protocol information for each pair of nodes. As with all WildPackets' "Peek" products, EtherPeek NX has the ability to open multiple live capture windows, each with independent expert and Peer Map analysis. Complete product information is available from http://www.chevin.com/tevistaexpert.htm

About WildPackets Inc.

WildPackets, a privately-held corporation, was founded in 1990 with a mission to create comprehensive, affordable software-based tools to simplify the complex tasks associated with maintaining, troubleshooting, and optimising evolving computer networks. WildPackets' patented, core "Peek" technology is the development base for EtherPeek, TokenPeek, AiroPeek, and the NX family of expert packet analysers. All are recognized as the analysis tools of choice for enterprise customers, including Motorola, Cisco, Symbol Technologies, Microsoft, British Telecom, the BBC, and many others. Information on WildPackets products and partners is available at www.wildpackets.com.

About Chevin

Chevin is a leading provider of innovative software systems that enable organisations to improve performance and control costs of their networks. Its flagship product, TeVISTA, is platform-independent and gives a real-time overview of everything that is happening on the network as well as historical reports. All sizes of distributed networks can be managed remotely through intuitive graphical interfaces. Likely problems can be anticipated and avoided so that downtime is prevented, and network capacity can be scaled to meet demand.

Chevin was founded in 1989 and has offices in Europe and the US. Its software provides solutions for organisations whose business success depends on the effectiveness of their network and who find ease of use and a low cost of ownership particularly appealing. Customers include telcos and service providers, blue-chip companies, e-businesses and medium and large enterprises. Users of Chevin technology include Debenhams, British American Racing, Schroders, Skipton Building Society, BT, Royal Navy Fleet Support, the US Internal Revenue Services and numerous police forces, hospitals and councils.

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