Ntt Docomo Selects Sniffer Solutions To Test One Of The World's First Third Generation Wireless Internet - Company Business and Marketing

EDP Weekly's IT Monitor, Sept 11, 2000

Sniffer Technologies, a Network Associates, Inc. (Nasdaq: NETA) business, today announced it has been selected by NTT DoCoMo as a component of one of the world's first third generation (3G) wireless Internet infrastructure. By utilizing Sniffer solutions, NTT DoCoMo will be able to ensure that the new network will provide reliable and scalable performance of voice, multimedia and mobile commerce applications for their subscribers.

Sniffer solutions are being used in NTT DoCoMo's test project to engineer and verify the seamless operation of the many IP-based technologies that comprise a 3G Wireless Internet. Sniffer solution's advanced traffic analysis capabilities enable network operators to monitor and troubleshoot virtually all Internet-enabled applications including Voice over IP (VoIP), streaming video, and web-based Internet traffic delivered to cellular phones, personal digital assistants (PDAs) and other mobile devices.

Investment firm H.C. Wainright & Co. estimates the US Wireless data market will reach $250-300 billion within the next ten years, which is an adoption rate significantly higher and faster than those previously seen with cellular networks.

As the demand for wireless access and devices proliferates, telecommunication providers and ISPs will need to implement wireless-compatible infrastructures to enable mobile commerce transactions. They will also need to focus on utilizing bandwidth-intensive Internet applications and services, such as VoIP, streaming video and multimedia. Sniffer Technologies is providing these next-generation networks with the comprehensive management and analysis solutions they require to ensure maximum network uptime and optimum performance of their wireless e-business initiatives and applications.

High-speed Sniffer solutions, including analysis solutions for Gigabit Ethernet, Asynchronous Transfer Mode and Packet over SONET networks, provide end-to-end visibility into all layers of network and application traffic. Theses solutions provide for monitoring, managing and analyzing carrier-grade optical networks. Sniffer solutions' award-winning and easy-to-use interface simplifies and speeds the deployment and maintenance of these technologies by providing detailed protocol decodes and expert analysis, helping detect potential errors in configuration and interoperability.

Through its support of major topologies, network devices and more than 550 protocol decodes, Sniffer solutions are comprehensive network troubleshooting and service level management tools for virtually any network. The Sniffer family supports major LAN and WAN topologies including 10/100 Ethernet, Token Ring, Gigabit Ethernet, T1, E1, ATM and Packet over SONET.

Sniffer Technologies, a Network Associates business, is a leading provider of network and application management solutions designed to ensure 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 enterprises 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, and data networks, and high speed switched and optical networks.

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.