Company announces plans for further expansion in the region

Dubai - November 1st 2006: Packeteer, the global leader in WAN Application Optimization, today announced that it will utilize this year's GITEX Dubai as a launch pad to increase its product awareness and availability in the Middle East & African regions.

"The Middle East is on a technology resurgence path, especially in the area of WAN acceleration and branch office connectivity," said Pierre Langlois, Packeteer's CEMA Regional Manager. "At GITEX Dubai, we will showcase our comprehensive solutions for today's biggest WAN performance challenges. From faster application access to realizing server consolidation benefits, Packeteer's intelligent overlay of key WAN optimization technologies ensures high-performance application delivery to keep business critical applications moving at the speed of business."

Packeteer recently launched version 3.2 of the iShared product family which will significantly lower the entry cost for implementing wide area file services (WAFS) and enhance an organization's Microsoft System Management Server (SMS) 2003 infrastructure. iShared version 3.2 provides customers with optimal application performance from the data center to the branch office thereby reducing the number of servers and network devices currently needed at branch locations. This iShared solution will also provide improved data security and manageability by fully integrating into Microsoft's System Management Server (SMS) 2003 framework.

"With the iShared product family, we're defining a 'branch office in a box' solution that perfectly complements our core application performance and optimization solutions," said David Puglia, Packeteer's vice president of marketing. "As we continue to integrate technologies, we'll be uniquely positioned to help customers - especially global organizations that rely upon distributed Microsoft applications - maximize their server consolidation initiatives for storage or file access by delivering secure, real-time data access for all remote users. Our iShared solutions completely centralize branch office management while optimizing application performance between the data center and the branch, furthering Packeteer's goal of guaranteed application delivery for every user, anywhere in the distributed enterprise."

Other Packeteer branch offices solutions to be highlighted at GITEX Dubai, are two new entry-level PacketShaper models that establish an aggressive price/performance benchmark specifically designed for branch office and network edge deployments. The PacketShaper 1400 and PacketShaper 1400 Lite models meet the WAN application optimization needs of distributed branch office enterprises by combining a high capacity appliance with built-in scalability that fits a branch office budget and resources. The new models offer customers the flexibility of a software key upgrade path to enable traffic shaping, application acceleration and compression options to deliver configurable WAN optimization solutions that protect existing network infrastructure investments.

Packeteer also signed a training agreement with Libanica SA as 'Packeteer Authorized Training Center' for customer and reseller training. Libanica has offices in Beirut, Dubai, and Switzerland and covers Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Jordan and United Arab Emirates' markets.

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About Packeteer:
Packeteer, Inc., (NASDAQ: PKTR) is the global market leader in Application Traffic Management for wide area networks. Deployed at more than 7,000 companies in 50 countries, Packeteer solutions empower IT organizations with patented network visibility, control, and acceleration capabilities delivered through a family of intelligent, scalable appliances. For more information, contact Packeteer at +1 (408) 873-4400 or visit the company's web site at: www.packeteer.com.

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