NetIQ and Spirent Communications Announce Worldwide Reseller Agreement for Chariot; Spirent Communications Now Offering Full ENPAS Solution to Customers.

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SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 26, 2001

NetIQ Corporation (Nasdaq:NTIQ), a leading provider of e-business infrastructure management software, and Spirent Communications, the world leader in performance analysis solutions, today announced a worldwide reseller agreement for NetIQ's Chariot product. In September 2000, NetIQ and Spirent Communications announced "ENPAS" (Enterprise Network Performance Analysis System), the successful collaboration of Chariot application-level testing software and SmartBits TeraMetrics open test platform. The companies are expanding their partnership further with Spirent Communications reselling Chariot, a key component of ENPAS, worldwide.

NetIQ's Chariot uses remote software agents, called Performance Endpoints, to generate "real-world" application-layer traffic to evaluate network performance. These endpoints run on more than 20 operating systems, including the cut-through channel of TeraMetrics modules. Chariot's application-layer response time and throughput measurements complement SmartBits' lower-level network measurements. Customers using these products together benefit from the scalability of the TeraMetrics platform when doing application-level testing.

"SmartBits is the market leader in large-scale network testing, and Chariot is the market leader in application-level network testing. Our customers have long recognized the individual benefits of both products," said Jim Jordan, Spirent Communications' vice president world wide sales. "Through this reseller agreement, we are excited to offer the full ENPAS solution directly to our customers."

"Strong synergy already exists between Chariot and SmartBits," said Glenn Winokur, senior vice president of Worldwide sales at NetIQ. "This announcement builds on the product synergies that already exist today and makes it even easier for customers to purchase and use these products together."

Communications Solutions Magazine, validating the need for highly scalable, well-integrated, data link to application layer performance testing, recently named ENPAS 2000 Product of the Year. Product award winners are selected from companies enabling technology and development platforms to enterprise and customer interaction systems to next-generation public infrastructure.

About NetIQ Chariot

Chariot is the standard in most independent network testing labs and is also used by more than 2,000 businesses and by the leading network equipment manufacturers. Chariot tests and troubleshoots any segment of your network and provides comprehensive reports of the results by emulating transaction traffic from real applications. It can be used to predict how well your network infrastructure will handle popular applications prior to deployment, and to isolate and evaluate the performance of new network devices. Chariot is highly scaleable and can be used to set up and control tests -- emulating up to 10,000 connections and hundreds of thousands of end-users -- all from a central console.

About NetIQ

NetIQ Corp. (Nasdaq:NTIQ) is a leading provider of e-business infrastructure management software, encompassing application, directory, server and network performance management. The company is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., with development and operational personnel in Houston; Raleigh, N.C.; and Bellevue, Wash. For more information, please visit NetIQ's Web site at http://www.netiq.com/ or call 408/856-3000.

About Spirent Communications

Spirent Communications is the world leader in performance analysis solutions. The company designs and manufactures Adtech, DLS, GSS, Hekimian, Metrohm, SmartBits, Net-HOPPER, TAS and Zarak products to provide customers with a full-breadth of comprehensive and integrated performance analysis solutions. Spirent Communications' solutions help accelerate development and minimize the risk of deployment of new communications technologies and services.

Spirent Communications' award winning hardware and software applications are used by more than 2,500 of the world's leading network and terminal equipment manufacturers, network service providers, corporate enterprises and test laboratories to verify and measure the performance and services of networks and communications devices.

For more information on Spirent Communications or its products, visit the Web site at www.spirentcom.com or call 800/927-2660.

NetIQ, the NetIQ logo, Chariot and the Chariot logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of NetIQ Corporation. All other products mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

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