CACE Technologies Signs First Pilot(TM) Bundling Agreement With Solera Networks.

Solera Networks to Offer Popular Network Analysis, Visualization, Charting and Reporting Tool With Solera DS[TM] Deep Packet Capture and Storage Appliances

DAVIS, Calif. -- CACE Technologies, Inc., developer of enhanced tools for Wireshark, today announced that Pilot, their new, powerful network analyzer that provides unique reporting, charting, and traffic visualization features, will be bundled and sold with Solera Networks DS deep packet capture and stream-to-storage appliances beginning immediately. Solera Networks will be demonstrating the combined offering at Interop this week at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Booth #1971.

Pilot, first announced and demonstrated at the inaugural Sharkfest '08 conference held earlier this month, has been enjoying an exceptionally enthusiastic response and rapid adoption from network managers and IT professionals across all market segments. The product's enhanced analysis, visualization, and reporting seems to have struck a particular chord with those needing to quickly and deeply analyze large traces and provide immediate, professional reports on their findings to clients and management.

John Bruno, CEO of CACE Technologies, states, "The overwhelming reception for Pilot by all who have seen it has prompted us to seek new channels with the reach and resources that can help us bring the software to the market quickly. We have been approached by many potential strategic vendor partners since previewing the product at SHARKFEST, and each partnering opportunity is being vetted carefully for its potential to expose the product to as wide a population of probable implementers as possible. Solera Networks, with their deep packet capture and stream-to-storage appliances, seems a natural fit. We are very pleased to have been able to arrange our very first product bundling partnership for Pilot with them."

"Solera Networks appliances provide complete visibility into network traffic throughout the enterprise from the virtual to the physical layer, at speeds up to 10 Gigabits per second," said James Brown, COO of Solera Networks. "Providing meaningful access to the massive amounts of data generated in that process is a challenge for organizations. As network traffic becomes faster and increasingly complex, being able to visualize, find and analyze particular portions of that data quickly and easily is very valuable to our customers. When Pilot is deployed in conjunction with the Solera DS appliance and its DeepSee application, customers have an unprecedented ability to visualize and analyze their network traffic."

Pilot "Views" are the core analysis and visualization feature of the application. Views are based on interactive graphical elements called "Charts," that include bar and pie charts, strip charts, conversation rings, and grids. Applying a View to a traffic source triggers the Pilot analysis engine to process the packet source, passing the display results to the appropriate Charts for visualization. Pilot contains a collection of over 70 Views, including a comprehensive collection for 802.11 that can be applied directly to wireless sources, including CACE Technologies' industry standard AirPcap adapters.

The ability to perform advanced filtering operations is the key to effective network analysis. The integration of Pilot with Wireshark is designed to optimize use of Wireshark's extensive collection of capture and display filters throughout Pilot. The use of Wireshark filters in conjunction with Pilot Views leads to virtually limitless analysis and visualization possibilities. The integration of Pilot and Wireshark, when used in conjunction with the Solera DS appliance and its native search and filtering capabilities, creates an extremely effective network analyzer.

Drill-down is one of the most powerful and unique features of Pilot. Drill-down occurs when a View is applied to a source that itself is the result of a selection made within a Chart of a previously instantiated View. This allows the user to pursue a deep level of analysis by continually refining the criteria for isolating anomalous network behavior.

For more information about using Pilot with the Solera DS Appliances, visit www.soleranetworks.com, or call 801 623-5705.

About Solera Networks

Solera Networks is the leader in providing network visibility via deep packet capture and stream to-storage technology. Solera Networks' DS Series is a line of high-performance appliances, including software-only virtual appliances, which capture, record, and archive 100% of network traffic at speeds up to 10Gbps. Captured traffic is written to a scalable, disk-based cache system and presented in multiple industry-standard formats, including PCAP, as a virtual network interface, or as regenerated network traffic. The captured data is then accessible instantly via Solera Networks' search, alert and archive interfaces, or via any standards-based security, forensics, compliance, analytics or network management application. Those applications can then perform their analysis on either live or stored data, at live, throttled or accelerated playback speeds, using sophisticated filters based on source/destination, protocol, time period and other variables, providing complete visibility into all network traffic without affecting the production network's performance. For more information on Solera Networks, visit http://www.soleranetworks.com.

About CACE Technologies, Inc.

CACE Technologies is an innovative group of product designers and engineers specialized in networking solutions that enhance the Wireshark experience. Experts in Windows and Linux device driver and network monitoring tools development, CACE's core engineering team includes the creators of Wireshark and WinPcap, premier open-source tools for packet capture and protocol analysis. For information on our tools and services, visit www.cacetech.com.

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