PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced the comprehensive network analyzer Agilent Advisor E-series, a faster and more cost-efficient monitoring platform, designed to simplify network troubleshooting. The Advisor E series, part of the award-winning Agilent Advisor family, incorporates Packet over SONET, High Speed V-Series Interface, Mobile-IP (3.5G) and enhanced software capabilities. The Advisor E-series offers users new benefits such as the ability to monitor and perform protocol analysis on services running Packet over SONET/SDH across access and core networks, thereby providing customers faster and more flexible technology. It provides full rate capture of both directions of a PoS connection at the interface rate of 155 Mb/s for SONET OC-3 and SDH STM-1 framing."These technological advancements will help Agilent meet the installation, maintenance and troubleshooting needs of customers who operate increasingly complex networks in a rapidly evolving environment" said Steve Witt, vice president and general manager of Agilent's Network Systems Test Division. "Packet over SONET technology, in particular, is gaining momentum and we are excited to provide this test capability to our very successful Agilent Advisor, which offers the only true 'all under one handle' solution for testing and troubleshooting networks." Agilent Technologies Inc.