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CACE Technologies, Inc., host organization for Wireshark®, : the world's foremost open source network analysis and development project, today announced that tech industry pioneers Van Jacobson : and Dr. Harry Saal : will deliver keynotes for the third annual SHARKFEST Wireshark : Developer and User Conference. SHARKFEST ‘10, sponsored by CACE, Wireshark University, and notable industry players that support and encourage the use of Wireshark with their products, will take place June 14th-17th at Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA.

According to Gerald Combs, Ethereal and Wireshark Project Creator and Director of Open Source Projects for CACE, “Keynotes by high-profile and highly-regarded networking figures are a much-anticipated part of

SHARKFEST. This year, we’ve decided to have both an opening and closing keynote to address requests from attendees for an inspiring welcome as well as a final gathering and stimulating wrap-up to the conference. Van Jacobson, our opening keynote speaker, will provide a truly auspicious welcome by sharing his experiences from decades of writing code and examining packets and our closing speaker, Harry Saal, the man who practically invented the commercial packet and network analysis market, is a perfect choice for delivering a final message to the attending Wireshark community. We are very fortunate to have their participation.”

Previous years’ keynote speakers have included Dr.

Vinton Cerf : , Ph.D., Google Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist and Father of the Internet; Dr.

Larry Roberts : , Founder and CEO of Anagran and Co-Inventor of the Internet; Len Shustek : , Chairman of the Computer History Museum Board of Trustees, and Stephen Stuart : , Distinguished Engineer at Google. SHARKFEST ‘10 will open with Van Jacobson’s presentation: "25 years of Packet Tracing - A Personal Retrospective,” and Dr. Saal will close the conference with his presentation: “Reading the Traffic: Learning Behavior from Watching Bits.”


Brief Bio - Van JacobsonVan Jacobson is one of the primary contributors to the technological foundations of today's Internet, creator of the first version of tcpdump, traceroute, and many other network diagnostics tools, PARC Research Fellow, and current Chief Scientist for Packet Design, Inc. Van's algorithms for the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) helped solve the problem of congestion and are used in over 90% of Internet hosts today. Widely credited with enabling the Internet to expand in size and support increasing speed demands, Van helped the Internet survive a major traffic surge (1988-89) without collapsing.

Besides authoring dozens of seminal, Internet-defining documents, he also helped lead the development of the Internet Multicast Backbone (MBone) and the popular Internet audio and video conferencing tools (vic, vat, wb) that laid the groundwork and defined the standards for current Internet VoIP and multimedia applications.


Brief Bio - Dr. Harry SaalDr. Harry Saal was chosen by the US Department of Justice to lead the Technical Committee charged with monitoring and enforcing the Microsoft Antitrust case. Helping to restore competition in the personal computer industry is an exciting and significant challenge, according to Dr. Saal.

Dr. Saal founded, and was the CEO of Network General Corporation, the first company wholly-dedicated to the area of network diagnostics. From 1993 through 1995, Dr. Saal served as founding CEO and President of Smart Valley, Inc., a non-profit organization chartered to create a regional electronic community based on an advanced information infrastructure and the collective ability to use it. Ernst & Young named Dr. Saal the Bay Area 1990 Software Entrepreneur of the Year and he is the recipient of the ADL Torch of Liberty Award, the ACM/Computer Museum 1994 Computer Bowl MVP, and the JNF Tree of Life Award. In 1997, Columbia University awarded Dr. Saal its highest honor, the John Jay Award.

Dr. Saal is a magna cum laude graduate of Columbia University where he received his Ph.D. in High Energy Physics in 1969.



SHARKFEST ‘10 Co-Sponsors Plixer : , Network Critical : , LoveMyTool : , and Wireshark University : are co-sponsors of SHARKFEST ’10 and will each present technical sessions that include their specific use of Wireshark as it relates to their markets and core competencies.


About SHARKFEST ‘10The SHARKFEST ‘10 Developer and User Conference offers an educational experience geared for new and seasoned Wireshark users alike. Conference details can be found on the main information and event registration web page at www.cacetech.com/sharkfest.10/ : .

Conference capacity is limited and early registration is strongly encouraged. Single registration for all 3 days is $695.00 USD with an early bird discounted price of $595.00 USD through March 1st. Group discounts are available, and staff and students associated with accredited educational institutions receive a 50% discount.



Conference RegistrationConference registration is now open at www.cacetech.com/sharkfest.10/ : .



About CACE Technologies, Inc.CACE Technologies is a creative group of product designers and engineers specializing in networking solutions designed to enhance the Wireshark user experience.

Experts in Windows device driver and network monitoring tools development, CACE's core engineering team includes the creators of Wireshark and WinPcap, premier open-source tools for protocol analysis and packet capture. For more information, visit www.cacetech.com/ : or email info@cacetech.com : mailto:info@cacetech.com .

Press passes available upon request





CACE Technologies, Inc.Sheri Najafi, 530-758-2790 ext. 111 (Event
and Press) sheri.najafi@cacetech.com : mailto:sheri.najafi@cacetech.com